Guest Post by Martha Gillis: Adoption From Nanchang, China
Yazan: CanCan | 05 January 2009 | 3 Comments
Categories: Adoption, China, guest posts
This guest post by Martha Gillis is a part of January’s Adoption Celebration at MomMostTraveled.com.
Martha Gillis remembers meeting her daughter for the first time in Nanchang, China:
August, 2003
Sure, I did the photo albums, filled in the blanks of the “Yes, You’re Adopted,” book and compiled the greatest how-we-got-you-from-China photo album replete with witty, bold-faced captions. [...]
Adoption Celebration
Yazan: CanCan | 05 January 2009 | 5 Comments
Categories: Adoption, CanCan, guest posts
I get so excited about adoption.
There is something so special to me about the way a family is built through adoption. The idea that a child, who came into being in a different place, maybe even a country far away, was without a doubt born belonging to the parents of his “forever family”.
So many [...]
Bringing Sexy Bag
Yazan: CanCan | 04 January 2009 | 55 Comments
Categories: Mom stuff, Uncategorized, bags and luggage, giveaways, green, reviews
I thought reusable shopping totes were pretty much all the same, but then I was introduced to its-las-tik!
Sue Princiotto has designed a fashionable,flexible and socially responsible reusable shopping bag!
Its-las-tik are glamorous shopping bags made from a stretchy, flexible nylon and lycra blend. Besides a sleek look, these bags are superior to cotton or plastic [...]
68-Hour Pregnancy by Helen Dutton
Yazan: CanCan | 04 January 2009 | 6 Comments
Categories: Adoption, guest posts
This guest post by Helen Dutton is a part of January’s Adoption Celebration at MomMostTraveled.com.
Tuesday - It began on a Tuesday afternoon at work like any other; the sun reached my office in the early afternoon so it was warm and bright and it relaxed me. I was feeling pretty good in general about work [...]
The Little Travelers
Yazan: CanCan | 03 January 2009 | 53 Comments
Categories: Teaching Kids about Different Culture, educational products, giveaways, travel with children
The Little Travelers Production company is the brainchild of another traveling mama of two, Angelina Hart!
Angelina chronicles the travels of her two adorable daughters as they explore the world with a child’s eye view.
The Little Travelers DVD’s are a travel documentary series designed for children, and educational and enlightening for everyone!
The Little Travelers also share [...]
Help Your Child Turn Green
Yazan: CanCan | 03 January 2009 | 28 Comments
Categories: books for children, educational products, giveaways, green, reviews
Children have a strong sense of justice, and they love to rally behind a worthy cause (just think of all those kiddie movies where friends band together to save something from an evil grown-up).
The Little Environmentalists aim to arm children with facts to inspire them to go green! I’m Turning Green is the [...]
Send Out Brownies
Yazan: CanCan | 01 January 2009 | 6 Comments
Categories: CanCan, Mom stuff, eating, links
I’m going to be completely honest with you here; I think about brownies a lot.
I don’t have the opportunity to eat brownies as often as I would like; often at the conclusion of a delicious meal I find myself thinking, “Now if only we had BROWNIES, it would be the perfect ending!”
Thomas and Friends: Special Delivery
Yazan: CanCan | 01 January 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: educational products, games, reviews
Jojo has been happily playing Thomas And Friends: Special Delivery, a computer game from Brighter Minds Media that I gave him for Christmas.
He is actually playing it right now on the desk top computer as I type on the laptop.
The premise of Thomas And Friends: Special Delivery follows a story, as James (the red train, [...]
Mom Most Traveled’s Fave Blog Posts of 2008
Yazan: CanCan | 31 December 2008 | 4 Comments
Categories: Deaky Deke, Jojo, Laos, Wild Sweet Orange, air travel, embarassing, links, travel with children, traveling baby
I thought for a long time about what kind of post I should write to bring closure to 2008.
Luckily, my entire life is pretty much pain stakingly detailed already in the pleathora of posts I wrote this year.
The best thing to do is to give the best posts a few more seconds of fame before [...]
A BlogHer Miracle
Yazan: CanCan | 31 December 2008 | 4 Comments
Categories: Uncategorized
In this blog post, I shared about my dreams for 2009.
One of my four dreams for 2009 is to attend the BlogHer ‘09 conference in Chicago in July.
Serendipitously, I logged on to Twitter and saw that the Queen of Spain (Erin Kotecki Vest, producer of BlogHer.com) is giving away 1 (one) full registration to the [...]
