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Today’s guest post is from Kate, a thirty something SAHM to a 21 month old boy and 8 month old girl. Kate and her husband are proof that blind dates do work out. They have been married since 2006 and enjoyed the first few years of marriage traveling and experiencing life. They then had a difficult three and a half year struggle to have a family and is now a lucky and extremely a busy Momma of babies that are 13 months apart. Kate started The Sticky Mom blog as a way to stay sane. Kate needed an outlet for creativity and to share all the smiles, laughs, and even tears that go along with being a Mom. The Sticky Mom blog explores the challenges of being everything to everyone.

Read Kate’s post on how she is able to balance it all… View Post

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This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Invisalign

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In the 80’s and 90’s most of my classmates and even my first boyfriend wore braces, it was a right of passage.  I even felt like an outsider because I never wore them, but the friends that wore them envied ME.  All my braces wearing friends complained that they could not enjoy certain foods for the sake of it getting stuck in the wires or having to visit the dentist for a weekly tightening of the bands.  YIKES!  Guess for them they were just known as the kid with wire mouths.

But now with the help of Invisalign, adults and teens now have a modern choice for straightening their teeth.  So you might be asking yourself what is the difference between traditional metal braces and Invisalign?

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Last Thursday, I was honored to be amongst such talented, beautiful and successful mom bloggers at the first (and hopefully not the last) “Mommy Meet Up” event hosted by Essence magazine and Chic Busy Mom.

Upon entry, we were immediately greeted by a life size poster of the magazine’s latest issue and the iconic logo on their fourth floor offices, located in New York City.

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We were then escorted into a meeting room that was filled with sandwiches, chips and most importantly refreshments aka liquid lunch.

From the smiling faces and positive atmosphere, I knew instantly that this was going to be a fun afternoon….and boy was I RIGHT!ess1

Topics included chatting about mommy guilt, celeb moms that inspires us (for me its Nicole Ritchie) and tips and advice on finding time with our significant. It was indeed an intimate, eye-opening experience that left us all wanting to know when the next Mommy Meet Up would be.

Visit #EssenceMoms on Twitter and on Instagram to get even more details and pics about this fab event.

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#EssenceMoms Mommy Meet Up roll call (in no particular order):
@MommyFactor, @MMNeighborhood, @TheGetFitDiva, @SmartNSassyMom, @NYStateofMom, @OMGhada, @AfropolitanMom, @ThirtyMommy, @Sofamilyonline, @TraceyChambersVI, @IbiZoboi, @BeautyNBumpNYC,
@MommyPosh, @MomsNCharge, @BklynActiveMama, @LosingCity

And if the fab convo and meet and great wasn’t enough, Essence and Chic Busy Mom gifted us with an amazing goodie bag, which included the latest issue of Essence Mag (also as an added bonus my son’s godmother/cousin appears in the ad on page 63), lipstick and a “Mommy” bracelet (pictured below) created by  Baubles by Meg.

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So thanks Essence magazine and Candace (ChicBusyMom) for a beautiful afternoon.

What events have you attended that makes your heart sing?  Do you wish there were more (if any) mommy meet up groups in your neck of the woods? 

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This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Parent’s Choice Overnight Baby Diapers.

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Whoever said that potty training can be done overnight, must not have any children…Geez, just when I thought that Lil B had been free and clear of diapers, we would then go back to square one where he would either wet the bed or have to be changed about five or six times a day from potty accidents.

So when I was asked to review an overnight diaper that claims to be extra absorbent with an exceptional value – I couldn’t wait to try to it out… View Post

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How is a busy mom suppose to look POSH while still maintain a household?  Simply, with the help of….
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