tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55776561665486465182024-02-20T08:12:28.333-08:00Mommy For A MomentMotherhood lasts a lifetime, but you're only Mommy for a Moment.Byrne Publishing LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08256176101842104952noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577656166548646518.post-68823320789650544042015-06-15T19:21:00.003-07:002015-06-24T09:43:28.310-07:00Turn Little Gamers into Big Readers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Frustrated that your kids only want to play video games this summer? Wish they would read instead? Have we got a book for you!<br />
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In the latest story from the Subject Scouts®
chapter book series, four kids spend a rainy morning making a video game app.
After reading the book, kids can download and play the game in real life for
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<span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The new Subject Scouts® book about video games is
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Byrne Publishing LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08256176101842104952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577656166548646518.post-62653670210201665322013-12-17T12:46:00.001-08:002013-12-17T12:48:20.546-08:00The Best Holiday Advice from a Mama<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Are you feeling the Christmas crunch? Still have cards to send? Cookies to bake? Gifts to buy? Wrapping to do?<br />
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It's easy to get caught up in the craziness as we strive to make this season perfect for our little ones.</div>
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Our little ones, however, would probably prefer we take a break over the next few days and listen to the sage advice uttered by Mama Llama in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670011614/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0670011614&linkCode=as2&tag=freshdetailsc-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Llama, Llama, Holiday Drama</a>:</div>
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Enjoy some Christmas cuddling while you still can, Mommy! </div>
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If you're looking for some special--and simple--holiday fun, check out <a href="http://www.byrnepublishing.com/MommyForAMoment/ChristmasActivityCalendar.html" target="_blank">these activities</a> at <a href="http://www.mommyforamoment.com/">www.mommyforamoment.com</a>.</div>
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Byrne Publishing LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08256176101842104952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577656166548646518.post-3405966576126216712013-08-01T11:31:00.001-07:002013-08-01T11:34:46.294-07:00Simple Summer Fun<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Byrne Publishing LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08256176101842104952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577656166548646518.post-69378622693509527632013-06-04T06:41:00.001-07:002013-06-04T06:45:27.098-07:00The First Graduation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white;">It seemed like just a few minutes ago that you were prying their clinging bodies from yours to drop them off for their first day. Suddenly, they're graduating.</span></div>
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They don their paper graduation caps and say goodbye to their first teacher. They clutch their first diplomas, proud of all they have accomplished. And you are proud,too...so, so proud.<br />
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They've learned so much this year. Numbers. Colors. Letters. How to share. How to make friends.<br />
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Here's to summer vacation, Mommy! Let's savor every second of it.<span style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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For fun summer activities, visit <a href="http://www.mommyforamoment.com/">www.mommyforamoment.com</a></div>
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The Christmas countdown is over. All the presents have been opened. Guests are heading home.<br />
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Here's a fun way to <a href="http://www.byrnepublishing.com/MommyForAMoment/UpcycledChristmasCards.html" target="_blank">upcycle your holiday cards</a> into gift tags and garland for next season, while simultaneously practicing tracing and cutting skills:</div>
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No snow this winter in your neck of the woods? Bust out the scarves and hats anyway for some fun<a href="http://www.byrnepublishing.com/MommyForAMoment/IndoorIceSkating.html" target="_blank"> indoor ice skating</a>.</div>
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And play with some fluffy white stuff any time you want by <a href="http://www.byrnepublishing.com/MommyForAMoment/MicrowaveIvorySoap.html" target="_blank">microwaving a bar of Ivory soap</a>:</div>
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You can find these, plus lots of other FREE <a href="http://www.mommyforamoment.com/" target="_blank">activities</a> and <a href="http://www.byrnepublishing.com/MommyForAMoment/ColoringSheets.html" target="_blank">coloring sheets</a> for kids at <a href="http://www.mommyforamoment.com/" target="_blank">mommyforamoment.com</a>.</div>
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Even those of us that were ho-hum about Halloween before we had kids admit to getting sucked into all the excitement of this holiday once we've got little bodies to dress up in adorable costumes.<br />
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Sure, we spend most of the other 364 days in the year trying to prevent our kids from consuming large quantities of sugar. But there's no reason we can't convert that boatload of sweets into a valuable tool for practicing early learning skills.<br />
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Storytime is one of the definite perks of being a mommy.<br />
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You get to curl up with your little ones and revisit favorite childhood characters <i>(like Corduroy, Peter Rabbit, and Madeline)</i> and explore new classics <i>(like Olivia, Fancy Nancy, and the Pigeon books)</i>.<br />
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When your kids are snuggled against you, and their imaginations are engaged by beautiful art and compelling storytelling, it's pretty hard to deny those requests for "one more book."<br />
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There's no harm in indulging kids with a giant stack of books. However, you should probably call it quits for a while if your find yourself unable to stop speaking in rhyme.<br />
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As summer winds down to a close, it's fun to look back over the highlights.<br />
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When we're at a theme park, we witness parents with older children planning rendezvous points for later meetings before they split up to go their separate ways. We see teenagers enjoying their freedom from their parents' watchful eyes. And we know that our future visits to theme parks are going to be vastly different once we retire that stroller.</div>
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As much as students--and teachers!--dread the end of summer vacation, all parties have to admit that nothing quite matches the excitement of that first day back.</div>
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The crisp new school clothes and bright-white sneakers. Backpacks still light from the lack of books. Freshly sharpened pencils. Reunions with old classmates and colleagues. Recaps of summer vacation. New schedules that have yet to lapse into the monotony of daily routine.</div>
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No matter how many of these "first days of school" you've experienced, nothing prepares you for the 1st First Day of school--that one where your little one leaves you for the first time to begin their own academic path.</div>
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They've been your constant companion for YEARS, and suddenly, it's time for them to go off on their own! Even if it's for a couple of hours of preschool a few days of week, the shift in your mommy routine and relationship is dramatic.</div>
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It's officially the end of the "baby" era. Celebrate it by savoring all the new special moments you get to have with your "preschooler."</div>
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Ah, Bathtime--that nightly occurrence that ensures Mommy gets as wet as the wee ones as she simultaneously scrubs body parts, prevents drowning, and reprimands about drinking water out of the tub.<br />
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Wait! Did I say "nightly?" Any Mommy with a bit of experience under her belt will realize that this ordeal need not occur on a daily basis, but should only be reserved for those days when significant time has been spent outside, or significant mess has occurred, such that baby wipes will not suffice in cleaning it up.<br />
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But the next time you do undertake the whole bathtime ritual, take a second to realize how little we actually will be involved in the hands-on cleaning of our kids in the course of their lives. Even a quick look at those little bodies in the tub will reveal how fast they are already growing up:<br />
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Baby bellies that are suddenly looking less round.<br />
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Before we know it, these little bodies will be headed to the showers, and our evenings will be rubber ducky-less. Let's wash them with extra-special care today, being sure to take mental snapshots of those precious baby parts before they disappear entirely.<br />
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Sleep, the Final Frontier.<br />
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These are the voyages of the Starship Mommy--her ongoing mission to spend the entire night in her own bed; to seek out new ways to prevent 3am wake-up calls; to get kids to nap like they've never napped before.<br />
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The nightly battle-of-the-bed is kind of like a <i>Star Trek </i>episode (if you'll bear with an analogy concocted by a sleep-deprived brain):<br />
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You will, indeed. Before you know it, it'll be time to retire your swaddling skills and your method of killing monsters in the closet. Your bedtime kisses and cuddles will be boxed up with the board books, and you'll start taking 8 hours of continuous sleep for granted, just like you did before you had kids.</div>
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Remember that cute little puppy in <i>101 Dalmations </i>who was always informing his mother that he was hungry? Somehow, his character isn't as amusing now that non-animated beings assail us mommies all day long, quoting his lines and fixating on two words in particular:<br />
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"Mommy! Hungry!"<br />
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Children eat like hobbits; they think that they require six meals a day. So, that means that as soon as you've cleaned up breakfast, the clamoring for "second breakfast" begins. And so on and so forth all day long until dinnertime, which is usually when the appetites of young children suddenly evaporate, and food (especially of the green vegetable variety) becomes their worst enemy.<br />
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Whether we like it or not, our kids are going to look to us as their source of nourishment. (Nursing mommies literally <i>are</i> their kid's food source). Even when it seems impossible to supply their insatiable demands, it's up to us to give them something to eat.<br />
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We scan labels for words like "organic" and "high fructose corn syrup." We cut grapes into eighths. We wipe yogurt off leather upholstery. We trim crusts off bread (even when we swore we would <i>never </i>do that for our kids). <br />
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Day in and day out, we combat hunger. We are thankful that we are blessed with the means to fight this battle successfully. <br />
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Break out the Cheerios, rip open some goldfish crackers, and raise your Dixie cups of watered-down apple juice: here's to all you mommies who answer the call of little tummies! They'll be out of your kitchen before you know it, so, "<i>bon appetit."</i><br />
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Housework stinks. It's unpleasant, time-consuming, and never-ending.<br />
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You can bet none of us is going to look back from her deathbed and declare, "I wish I would have spent more time cleaning my house."<br />
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Yet, we all want to provide a lovely home for our families, the kind of place that will make our kids say, "I'd rather spend time in this house than anywhere else" (<a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?rlz=1C1LEND_enUS438US438&sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&rlz=1C1LEND_enUS438US438&sclient=psy-ab&q=psalm+84:10&oq=psalm+84:10&gs_l=hp.3...7822.19467.0.19841.12.12.0.0.0.0.73.632.11.11.0...0.0...1c.m5SQ5wLFGdU&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=8f43c5bd048b596f&biw=1920&bih=1075" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Psalm 84:10</a>). We want to create a space where peace and love reign supreme, a refuge where children can be who they truly are and be nurtured to reach their fullest potential.<br />
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Does this type of "home" require awesome interior decorating? Not really.<br />
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The constant scrubbing, organizing, and picking-up that we do as mommies is no fun, but the act of making a <i>home</i> for our kids is totally worth the effort. Along with complaining to each other about our housework, let's encourage each other to cherish this time when our kids are still at home with us.<br />
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<span style="color: #222222;">Mommies are places of refuge for their little ones, even on those days when we feel like we are the ones who need to escape to a safe place (<a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?rlz=1C1LEND_enUS438US438&sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&rlz=1C1LEND_enUS438US438&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=psalm%2036%3A7&oq=&gs_l=&pbx=1&fp=8f43c5bd048b596f&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&biw=1920&bih=1075" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Psalm 36:7</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">But someday--sooner than we would like--our kids will outgrow our laps, and all those delicious cuddles will fade into warm memories.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Let's create a safe place to escape to together as mommies so that we can enjoy those cuddles while we've still got the chance.</span><br />
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</div>Byrne Publishing LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08256176101842104952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577656166548646518.post-48406232853248029222012-07-25T08:00:00.000-07:002012-07-30T08:55:21.225-07:00A Jewelry Box Made of Cardboard<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17.84336280822754px;">You're surrounded by mountains of laundry. You just changed your fifth dirty diaper of the day. You're wearing spit-up on your shoulder and sporting dark circles under your eyes from months of sleep deprivation.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17.84336280822754px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17.84336280822754px;">You are hanging on by a very thin thread. You fear that at any second you could end up curled in </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">the</span><span style="line-height: 17.84336280822754px;"> fetal position in a Pack-n-Play, mumbling the lines to "Good Night, Moon" and shoveling goldfish crackers into your mouth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17.84336280822754px;">You've been entrusted with the awesome </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">responsibility</span><span style="line-height: 17.84336280822754px;"> of growing another human being (!) and you feel like you could break down at any second. You're charged with keeping the riches of the universe safe, and you're as sturdy and secure as a cardboard box (<a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?rlz=1C1LEND_enUS438US438&sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&gs_nf=1&tok=8CcjUhzun-xscQYeq-UBxg&pq=psalm%2036%3A7&cp=17&gs_id=34&xhr=t&q=2+corinthians+4:7&pf=p&rlz=1C1LEND_enUS438US438&sclient=psy-ab&oq=2+corinthians+4:7&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=8f43c5bd048b596f&biw=1920&bih=1075&bs=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2 Corinthians 4:7</a>).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">Yet, day after day, menial task after menial task, you accomplish your mission. You're beat down, but you're still at it, pouring life into your little ones. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">Don't despair! Your efforts are not in vain! Let's help each other recognize how brief this time of insanity is in our lives so that we can enjoy our kids when they're little.</span></span></div>
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