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How Do You Define Balance?

February 22, 2010 By Melanie Edwards 13 Comments

Scales in Balance

What does balance mean to you? Is it about balancing you as a person? Does it involve the people around you? Or is it about the roles you play in life? Let me elaborate a bit on what I mean. Balancing You Do you strive for your physical, mental, and spiritual health to be in-line? […]

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Filed Under: life, Work Tagged With: balance, helping others, life, me time, personal balance, Sahm, self, self balance, Wahm, Women, Work, work life balance

Why Men Shouldn’t Do Grocery Shopping: A Purex Video Review

February 19, 2010 By Melanie Edwards 9 Comments

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Purex. All opinions are 100% mine. Hello, hello. It is that time of the week again. Viernes! Friday! And, it’s definitely TGIF for me. I’m looking forward to having some fun family time this weekend, though I was grateful to return to a “normal” […]

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Filed Under: home, reviews, viernes social Tagged With: #viernessocial, busy moms, home, housework, life, purex, purex 3-in-1 laundry sheet, purex insider, Sahm, social friday, viernes social, vlog, Wahm, wohm

Kristi Yamaguchi on Being a Working Mom

February 17, 2010 By Melanie Edwards 5 Comments

Kristi Yamaguchi, US Olympic gold medalist, is featured in the February/March issue of Working Mother magazine. In her interview with Working Mother, Kristi Yamaguchi speaks on success, balancing her high-profile career and home, motherhood, and the lessons she’s learned. I thought it would be interesting to see how a celebrity mom handles work-life balance, especially […]

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Filed Under: Wahm, Working Mothers Tagged With: balance, family, home, kristi yamaguchi, life, Motherhood, Sahm, Wahm, Work, work life balance, working mother, working mother magazine, Working Mothers

Can Preschoolers Help Clean?

February 1, 2010 By Melanie Edwards 18 Comments

Today I found myself home with my baby girl but also needing to clean. She didn’t go to preschool today, but I knew that I couldn’t let her being home get in the way of cleaning. This is a busy and short week for me due to the upcoming trip to Blissdom, so it is […]

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Filed Under: preschoolers, Wahm Tagged With: children, chores, cleaning, house, housework, kid-friendly, kids, life hacks, preschool, preschooler, preschoolers, Sahm, toddler, toddlers, Wahm, young children

Sample Daily Routine for Working from Home

January 27, 2010 By Melanie Edwards 46 Comments

Happy with work from home routine

Last week I posted a message on twitter and facebook about being happy with my daily work from home routine. Specifically, it looked like this: Many responded that they wanted in on the secret and wondered if I would share what I’m doing. Though my routine is not extraordinarily different than most, I’ll go ahead […]

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