Family Life

Beauty and Pampering

Skin Care During Pregnancy

Everyone knows about that special "glow" a woman has when she's expecting, but pregnancy isn't all good news when it comes to your skin. Hormones are raging through your body, and a number of skin conditions can develop. Even topical treatments can be absorbed into your system – and the baby’s – so skin care during pregnancy requires special attention.

• Five Easy Ways to Update Your Look
• The Mane Event: Creating Salon-Quality Hair Styles At Home

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Cooking

3 Tips For A Seductively Healthy Valentine's Dinner

By Elizabeth Yarnell www.gloriousonepotmeals.comWhat can you do to make a special Valentine’s Day Dinner for your sweetie? Make it hot, make it healthy, and make it easy!

• Crock Pot Chicken & Dumplings
• Crock Pot Salsa Chili

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Crafts

Inhabitots on JustMommies: Eco-Friendly Valentine's Day Crafts & Creations

Get your kiddos into the spirit of Valentine's Day by having them put their heart into a crafty creation. Here are 6 eco-friendly Valentine's Day crafts especially for kids, from festive decorations to adorable gift bags.

• Do-It-Yourself Valentine's Day Card Ideas for Kids
• Easy Birthday Invitations for Kids!

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Family Dynamics

Are You a Married Single Mom?

If you have kids you know how hard the job of mothering is.  Even though married moms have a spouse to help them with household chores, parenting, and managing the home, they still may feel as overwhelmed as moms who don’t have a partner.  This situation, where women feel like they are stuck doing it all, is becoming more common and has even led to the start of internet sup

• Parenting Styles – One Size Does Not Fit All
• Fight the Pressure to Over-schedule: 10 Tips to Take Back Your Family

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Family Finances

The Family Bum: How to deal with family members who constantly ask for money

Money is more important now than ever for many families.  If you are one of the families fortunate enough to be in good financial shape during these tough economic times, this may make you a magnet for the family bum.  Jeanne Fleming, financial ethics columnist for Money magazine and co-author of Isn’t It Their Turn to Pick Up the Check?, surveyed 800 people across the

• Can You Afford to be a Stay at Home Mom?
• 5 Easy Ways to Save Money at the Grocery Store

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Family Health

10 Simple Food Substitutions to Get Bikini Ready

Bikini season is just around the corner! There's still time to get in  top bikini shape and what tastier way than with these easy, simple,  and delicious substitutions. Great tasting food doesn't have to be  bland, boring, and flavorless. As the Bikini Chef, my food philosophy  is fresh, fresh, fresh.

• Lost Tampon: Symptoms of a lost tampon and how to remove
• Speech & Language Development: The Second Year

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Family Travel

Top 7 Tips for Traveling with a Baby

As a mom of a one-year-old and a founder of Enrout, a revolutionary alternative lodging search engine, I pretty much live and breathe baby travel everyday! Here are my top seven tips for traveling with a baby:

• Best "Free" Family Vacations
• Must-Read Tips for Your Family Road Trip

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Gardening

Gardenscape on a Shoestring

Many of us flip through garden magazines, all the while thinking that it takes years, a professional, or tons of money to landscape the gardens featured in the glossy pictures. This isn’t necessarily true. You can design a breathtaking garden and be the envy of the neighborhood by following some of the following tips.

• How to Make Stepping Stones
• Tomato Container Gardens

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Holidays

Inhabitots on JustMommies: Eco-Friendly Valentine's Day Crafts & Creations

Get your kiddos into the spirit of Valentine's Day by having them put their heart into a crafty creation. Here are 6 eco-friendly Valentine's Day crafts especially for kids, from festive decorations to adorable gift bags.

• Do-It-Yourself Valentine's Day Card Ideas for Kids
• Holiday Pretzel Treats

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Home Organization

Inhabitots on JustMommies: Easy Ways to Organize Kids' Bedrooms & Playrooms

A new year is all about fresh starts, and getting organized is one of the easiest ways to streamline your home and rejuvenate your surroundings.

• Green Cleaning: Make Your Own Natural Cleaners
• Husbands and Housework: How to get him to help out more

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Just for Dads

Today’s Family Man “Tapping Dad’s Potential”

Even though more men are choosing greater involvement with their families, miles of improvement are still needed to shrink the gap between the average mom and typical dad. Much is said about what the guys lack and should do to make things better. But what can the women involved do to help a father tap his potential?

• "Daddy, Play With Me!"
• JM's Six Funniest Celebrity Dads

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Just for Moms

Are You a Married Single Mom?

If you have kids you know how hard the job of mothering is.  Even though married moms have a spouse to help them with household chores, parenting, and managing the home, they still may feel as overwhelmed as moms who don’t have a partner.  This situation, where women feel like they are stuck doing it all, is becoming more common and has even led to the start of internet sup

• New Year’s Resolutions for the Super Mom
• When Moms Get Angry - Anger management tips for moms

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Parties and Decorating

Caterpillar Cupcakes

To make your caterpillar cupcakes you will need: 7 cupcakes white frosting green food coloring brown food coloring butter knife tray or foil covered cardboard sandwich bag red or black peel apart licorice  

• Decorating a Child's Room - 8 Simple Strategies to Make You Both Happy!
• A Puppy Party for Kid-Friendly Dogs

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Scrapbooking and Digital Scrapbooking

Halloween Digital Scrapbooking Freebie Kit

Have fun with our easy to use Halloween digital scrapbooking kit. Design a spooky page for your friends and family with our colorful Halloween decorated papers and elements.

• Homemade Birth Announcements: Make Your Own Birth Announcements
• 10 Ways to Take Better Photos of your Child

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Work and Work at Home

Working from Home: How to Get Your Unsupportive Spouse on Your Side

You’ve finally found the perfect gig to earn some money from home. But just when you think you have it all figured out, you learn that your spouse is not on board with the plan. Whether it’s a concern about money, time, housework, or anything else that might be on his mind, you’ll need to work it out together if you want your new arrangement to succeed.

• Working at Home with Kids
• Top Ten Business Ideas Moms Can do From Home

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Green Living

Inhabitots on JustMommies: Eco, Economical, Fashion-Forward Maternity Wear for Stylish Moms-to-Be

Experiencing a fashion slump during the nine months to motherhood? Pregnancy may present all sorts of challenges, but dressing stylishly need not be one of them! Read on to get the lowdown on dressing-up your bump without spending tons of cash on maternity clothes.

• Inhabitots on JustMommies: The Best Eco-Friendly Wooden Toys for Sparking Imaginations
• Inhabitots on JustMommies: Squeaky Clean and Green Bathtime Fun for Babies And Tots

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