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Mommy Reality #14: The Junk Drawer

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Well… it’s okay that nobody wanted to play with us last week! *sniff* *sniff*. The theme was “Grocery Store Treasures” and the Mommy Reality Team searched faithfully to bring you such treasures as this: And this: But we understand being busy moms (especially during back-to-school week) and, no worries, we are good sports (and we’ll take our play-things and not …

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Mommy Reality #13: The Grocery Store

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This week has been intense. Jen lives in the Southwest and had a flash flood rip through her neighborhood and in one short hour turn it into a swampy submerged river area (pictures to come). Celeste lives in the St Louis area and has been seeing some scary rioting in her area. Through all of the craziness though we have …

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When Photos Fail: My Mommy Reality

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This week Celeste my Mommy Reality partner in crime has challenged us to share our photo fails. If you missed it, here is the challenge and her own photo fail: Now, to share my photo fails. First off, we have my Samantha having a less than stellar photo experience with Santa. She is actually trying to get away from him …

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Mommy Reality Challenge #12: When Photos Fail

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Boom. Here we go again! In last week’s Mommy Reality Challenge, Jen commanded that we expose the contents of our purses to the world! We had many participants! Some of you posted your purse pics in a blog post which you linked to the “Mommy Reality” post, and some of you posted pics with the #mommyreality hashtag on Twitter, Google+, …

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Mommy Reality Challenge #11- Invasion Of The Purse Snatchers

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Last week, we announced that there would be some changes to the Mommy Reality Challenge. We are sad to be losing a member of our Mommy Reality team, but Carolyn from A Lavender Life has made the decision to step away from her role as a Mommy Reality host. We will miss you, Carolyn! We also announced that the winner …

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My Food Face Photo Mommy Reality

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I can’t believe that we have made it to week 10 of the Mommy Reality Challenge! I have had so much fun seeing your pictures, meeting your family members and learning about your own version of Mommy Reality. Each of you who have participated over the past 10 weeks have become dear friends and I look forward to seeing your …

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Mommy Reality Challenge #10: Food Foto Face

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Well, lookie what has happened here! We’ve reached TEN whole weeks of this Mommy Reality Challenge thing! We thought this called for a celebration. Bu-ut it’s summer vacation, actually, and we’re just too wiped-out to do anything especially smashing and clever. So, instead we present you with a new fabulous graphic for your viewing pleasure especially for this post! WOOO! …

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Week 9 Of The Mommy Reality Challenge: Life Hacks

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  Can you believe that we are at week 9 of the Mommy Reality challenge! When the Mommy Reality team began this project we started with the hope of creating a community of mom’s who would encourage and support one another on this important and difficult journey of motherhood. It has been exciting to watch as together we have shared …

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Mommy Reality #8- Guilty Pleasures

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Meet the Mommy Reality Team: Carolyn of A Lavender Life *Jen of JENerally Informed * Celeste of Leapfrog and Lipgloss In honor of the Fourth of July holiday here in the States last week, we were extremely laid-back with our challenge topic and offered up some summertime free reign with our Essence of Summer Challenge. We called upon you to …

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Mommy Reality Challenge #7 and Link-Up

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The Mommy Reality Team Carolyn of A Lavender Life *Jen of JENerally Informed * Celeste of Leapfrog and Lipgloss (To learn more about the #mommyreality team, click here) Well, I think I caught everyone off-guard last week by switching the theme challenge topic to “Mommy Loungewear“!  I know the rest of the Mommy Reality team was crossing their fingers and …