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From chaos to community – we all lived it – no longer strangers, we
still grieve together and our views of New York just haven’t been the same,
since.

Especially, from here in Jersey.

I can’t believe that it’s been 7 years, but I do remember how terribly
frightened I was — living just across the bay from the World Trade
Center in New York City — with my two oldest already in elementary
school and me home, alone, with a toddler and a 2 month old.

Honestly, do I really want to remember?

I learned about Snag Films, while looking for links to share for this month’s column on the Imperfect Parent, and was totally blown away by their first annual September 11th Remembrance in Film.

There are five documentary films slated, featuring the critically acclaimed 7 Days in September, the films will be available in their entirety, without commercial interruption, at both www.snagfilms.com and www.indiewire.com between today and September 12th, 2008.

I ask that you take a moment, sometime today, to watch this 90-minute
film and I promise, you WILL remember that – although, we may run in
different circles – the kindness and compassion of the human heart knows no
boundaries.

Peace to you, my friends.

[Cross-posted from New Jersey Moms Blog]

© 2008 This Full House – All Rights Reserved.

Welcome to Mommy’s Little Eye Candy – a weekly series of photos and blog posts targeted towards more frazzled-out and frustrated moms, you know, like me!

Mommyporn, if you will, only a whole lot cleaner and totally calorie-free!

In fact, Mommy’s Little Eye Candy will make you LOVE Mondays…yeah, that’s right…or, help you forget the worry and stress you feel about the rest of the week.

For a little while, at least.

[big toothy grin]

Ready for this week’s Eye Candy?

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A few years ago — long before Twitter and SEO’s ruled the Internets — someone came up with MILF and I thought…ICK!…and then I had this idea of hosting a weekly series of photos and blog posts targeted towards more frazzled-out and frustrated moms, like me.

Then, with just one click, I blew up my blog and lost 2 years of eye candy!

[bows head in a moment of silence]

I think it’s about time we resurrect some good old-fashioned mommy porn of our own; hopefully, translating it as NOT having to feel guilty about wanting to stay in bed and pulling the covers over your head, or worry about how you should probably be doing something a little more, you know, constructive instead.

Like, food shopping, doing laundry, or something.

Riiiiight.

I don’t think so!

In fact, Mommy’s Little Eye Candy will make you LOVE Mondays…yeah, that’s right…or, help you forget the worry and stress you feel about the rest of the week.

For a little while, at least.

[big toothy grin]

Ready for this week’s Eye Candy?

(more…)

Dear Mr. President,

I know you’re busy.  You’ve worked very hard, traveled many miles, remained sleepless for a ridiculous amount of hours and heard millions of voices asking you to remember them in your considerations as the next President of the United States.

As a mom of 4 children, I feel it safe to say…it’s about to get worse.

(more…)

One of the reasons I enjoy blogging, so much — besides, the flexible hours and
the fringe benefits of hanging out in my pajamas and having unlimited
access to the delete button — is the extreme sense of community and respect we share, for each other.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could take a piece of the blogosphere and
wrap it up in a tidy little book, to take with us, in real life?

Take a quick peek into "Sleep Is for the Weak," here!

© 2008 This Full House – All Rights Reserved.

A few years ago — long before Twitter and SEO’s ruled the Internets — someone came up with MILF and I thought…ICK!…and then I had this idea of hosting a weekly series of photos and blog posts targeted towards more frazzled-out and frustrated moms, like me.

Then, with just one click, I blew up my blog and lost 2 years of eye candy!

[bows head in a moment of silence]

I think it’s about time we resurrect some good old-fashioned mommy porn of our own; hopefully, translating it as NOT having to feel guilty about wanting to stay in bed and pulling the covers over your head, or worry about how you should probably be doing something a little more, you know, constructive instead.

Like, food shopping, doing laundry, or something.

Riiiiight.

I don’t think so!

In fact, Mommy’s Little Eye Candy will make you LOVE Mondays…yeah, that’s right…or, help you forget the worry and stress you feel about the rest of the week.

For a little while, at least.

[big toothy grin]

Ready for this week’s Eye Candy?

(more…)

From Hillary Clinton’s run for the Presidency, the fierce beauty and strength of gold medal winners Nastia Liukin, Natalie Coughlin, to Darra Torres’ improbable 5th
Olympic bid (at 41, she is one of the oldest female Olympians at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games) it’s been a historic year for women!

To the media, I’m just another mom blogger — serious issues, like politics, aren’t supposed to interest me — still, I can’t help but wonder.

Why IS IT so hard to find a home in our nation’s history for these American women?!?!?

(more…)

[Edited to Add:  I borked-up my blog and accidentally disappeared comments – got ’em back again, but without blog links – because, I am A DORK!]

More fun blog fodder, with my compliments, brought to you by a mommy blogger who’s just dying to find yet ANOTHER reason to ignore the laundry!

You’re welcome!

Oh, and check out my review for the Parent Bloggers Network – we’re talking about White Trash Mom and YES, she knows it!

© 2008 This Full House – All Rights Reserved.

[Please, clean off a chair and stay a while – subscribe to email updates or the RSS feed or – if you really, really like me – visit with us, again and I’ll love you forever!]

Seriously — mine STILL have a few more weeks to go — but, isn’t it time we ALL started thinking about kicking our kids…ahem…back-to-school!?!?

Having 4 kids, attending 4 different schools this year (yes, in the
same town) my husband, Garth (not his real name) and I try really hard
to pick and choose our children’s back-to-school supplies very, very
carefully!

It doesn’t always work.  Sometimes, we score…big time.

Like now (during the week of August 25th and September 1st)
I’ve got lots of great stuff to share with you.  These picks, as always, are
advertorial free.  No one is paying me, to talk about their product.  It’s just some really nice stuff that I thought you guys would like,
too.

Oh, did I mention the really cool prizes and awesome giveaways!?!?

[big-toothy grin]

Click here and I’ll show you!

[8/15/08 Edited to Add: I borked-up my blog and accidentally disappeared ALL comments – sorry, if I lost yours – because, I am A DORK!]

By the time you read this, the kids and I will be knee-deep in raspberries, sweating our collective asses off and dodging yellow jackets (stupid bees) in some God-forsaken field in New Jersey.

Sounds like fun – it was my Aunt’s idea, she’s Hungarian, you know – wanna come?

That’s okay.  I understand.  But, just when you thought it was safe (damn, I can’t believe she’s still talking about this) I give you fifty-four-eleventy-or-so reasons why I’m SO GLAD that I decided to (and everyone else, should) go to BlogHer.

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