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Monday, September 28, 2009 Family, Life

Yes, I am paid for this, but accepted only because it was totally fun to do!

Get great tips from mommy blogger Mindy Roberts on keeping your child comfortable and secure at daycare—or anytime Mom has to be away.

Mindy Roberts is an established blogger and vlogger, a published author, and the mother of three young children. Were happy to share Mindys warmth, humor and experience right here on JOHNSON® baby channel.

Thursday, February 26, 2009 Family, Life, Children's Health, Moms Like Us

I’m swerving off my usual sarcastatrack to talk about something that touches an astonishing number of families given the word “rare” in the description. This Saturday is World Rare Disease Day, and they have very simple objectives for 2009:

The main objective of Rare Disease Day 2009 is to raise awareness with policy makers and the public of rare diseases and of their impact on patients’ lives. Other main objectives of Rare Disease Day are to:

• Raise awareness on rare diseases
• Strengthen one voice of patients
• Give hope and information to patients
• Bring stakeholders closer together
• Coordinate policy actions in different countries
• Inspire continued growth of the awareness of rare diseases
• Get equity in access to care and treatment

Awareness raising events will take place in each participating country. To find out what is happening in your country, click here.

If that seems like a mouthful, at least watch this video about Baby Hannah, whom I want to snuggle and tickle and take home with me until I remember she is in the very best and loving hands already. You may want to grab a box of tissues. first.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Other people who write, Family, Life

PERFECT update this morning from ZenHabits.

Let the World Pass You By

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” - Bertrand Russell

Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter.

I was sitting outside my new home yesterday (we just moved last week, and we love the new place), watching the world go by.

There were people in cars, in a hurry to get to their next appointment. There were birds flying by, insects just as busy as the people in cars, plants and weeds thriving in the humid Guam climate.

Inside the house, my children were also busy, as ever, making a mess of the house (which my wife and I would soon clean up), getting into things, their natural curiosity overpowering our previous pleas for them not to play with lotion or take things apart.

The sky was slightly overcast and there was a cool breeze, quite strong and pleasant actually.

It’s not often that most of us just sit quietly, and allow the world to pass us by.

Why not?

What is so important that it can’t wait until later? What email must be answered right this moment? Do we really need to read all those articles online, all those messages from others, all those newspapers and magazines? Do we need to have the television and radio and Internet on all the time?

Is life passing us by as we keep our minds super-busy? Are we missing out on the beautiful world around us as we constantly think about the future — what we need to do, our anxieties about what might happen — and the past — what we did wrong, what someone else did to us, what we said, what should have happened?

When was the last time you just sat, and observed? Why not do it today?

Thursday, January 08, 2009 Other people who write, Life

History is not a straight line going from the beginning to the end, it loops and swirls eventually finding its way back to places its been before.  Don’t believe me, see for yourself.

Man, careful how far you click through on that one there, you could get lost for days.

History is repeating—duh—and I dug further proof out of my files while looking for the garage door warranty (Torsion spring still broken. No open for you.). The paper was yellowed and wrinkled, old, at least ten years, but I’d carefully preserved it, thinking it would retain its relevancy.

Unfortunately, I was right.

I give you Jonathan Clements’ “41 Ways to Accentuate the Positive” when the economy has gone to hell. Number eight is particularly apt for me: “You don’t feel sheepish anymore about owning mutual funds.” Or about having given the retirement accounts away in the divorce.