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Melanie Edwards

How Will You Maintain Balance this Week?

December 21, 2009 By Melanie Edwards Leave a Comment

This is sure to be one of those weeks when the balance fairies need to pay me a visit. With Christmas being ONLY 4 DAYS AWAY, my brother and nephew being in town from Milwaukee, client work to do, a blog to maintain, a house to keep clean, and my sanity hanging by a thread, […]

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Filed Under: life Tagged With: balance, busy week, christmas, holidays, life, meal planning, online timer, organizing, planning, sample menu, stress, time management, to-do list, work life balance

Latina-Inspired Graphic Tees – Win a “Mamacita” Shirt

December 18, 2009 By Melanie Edwards

This week’s Viernes Social highlights a Latina-owned company. We’re featuring KC Tees, an LA-based company that makes Latina-inspired graphic t-shirts. Their shirts have messages in both English and Spanish, including Peace (Paz), Love (Amor), Faith (Fe), and Fuerte (Strong), among others. As told by the owner, “the line was created with the objective of inspiring […]

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Filed Under: Giveaways, viernes social Tagged With: #viernessocial, clothes, contest, giveaway, latina, latinas, Shopping, viernes social

SpanglishBaby’s Bicultural Holiday Traditions

December 14, 2009 By Melanie Edwards Leave a Comment

Starting today, SpanglishBaby, is hosting 7 days of Mamás Blogueras (Blogging Moms) and highlighting posts about our bi-cultural holiday traditions. I’m honored to be 1 of the 7 mamis being featured! You can find my post up today: Embracing Puerto Rican Christmas Traditions. A little excerpt for you: Growing up, we always knew Navidad had […]

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Filed Under: life, Puerto Rico Tagged With: bicultural, boricua, christmas, hispanic, holidays, latina, latinos, navidad, puerto rican, Puerto Rico, puertorriqueño, spanglishbaby

Win an Evening Clutch from Dressbarn!

December 11, 2009 By Melanie Edwards

It’s time for another Viernes Social! Today we have a fun contest for an evening clutch – perfect for upcoming holiday parties! When I attended the Type-A Mom Conference this September, I had the opportunity to participate in a fashion show sponsored by dressbarn. Several speakers got to go shopping for our “perfect outfit” and […]

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Filed Under: Giveaways, viernes social Tagged With: clothes, contest, dressbarn, evening clutch, giveaway, Shopping, type-a mom conference, typeamom, typeamomcon, viernes social, Women

To Watch this Week: Princess Tiana, Dora’s Nochebuena, and Signing Time

December 9, 2009 By Melanie Edwards 4 Comments

There are many new TV shows and movies coming up that are age-appropriate for toddlers and preschoolers. I wanted to share a few that are showing this week you may want to check out. This Friday, Disney’s The Princess and the Frog opens nationwide. In case you didn’t know, Princess Tiana is Disney’s first African-American […]

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Filed Under: preschoolers Tagged With: disney, dora, holiday shows, movies, nick jr, nickelodeon, preschoolers, princess and the frog, Princess Tiana, sign language, signing time, toddlers, Tv

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