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The Smart Mom Manual. The guide to being a great mom while maintaining your sanity and life balance. View my complete profile. Monday, July 30, 2012. Lovin’ Those Leftovers. By Winnie Yu for Completely You. My favorite meal of the week is the one I made days before. Not the fresh pot of chili, the hot-out-of-the-oven homemade pizza or the new batch of mac ‘n’ cheese. It’s the old one, the one that’s been sitting in my fridge, sometimes for a few days. Yes, it’s the leftovers. Having an extra fridge allow...
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The Smart Mom Manual
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The Smart Mom Manual. The guide to being a great mom while maintaining your sanity and life balance. View my complete profile. Tuesday, February 21, 2012. 8216;All Done’: A New Kind of Checklist. By Winnie Yu for Completely You. Making a to-do list achieved what I needed most at the time: an organized way to keep track of things that had to get done. (Here’s how to write a smart to-do list.). But for my sanity, I’d prefer to keep another kind of list: an all-done list. You might wonder, why bother? What ...
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The Smart Mom Manual: Awaken Your Inner Diva
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The Smart Mom Manual. The guide to being a great mom while maintaining your sanity and life balance. View my complete profile. Tuesday, January 17, 2012. Awaken Your Inner Diva. By Winnie Yu for Completely You. When you’re a mom, it’s easy to let yourself go, to slip into a pair of high-waist jeans, throw on a sweatshirt and be on your way. After all, that’s what moms do - especially if we don’t need to get dressed up for work. 8220;What did you think? 8220;That was not you,” Annie said sternly. And then...
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The Smart Mom Manual: Valentine's Day: Not Just a Romantic Holiday
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The Smart Mom Manual. The guide to being a great mom while maintaining your sanity and life balance. View my complete profile. Tuesday, February 14, 2012. Valentine's Day: Not Just a Romantic Holiday. By Winnie Yu for Completely You. To find these special people, all you have to do is open up your eyes and heart, and look. These people are there. Some are center stage; some are lurking in the wings. Still, others are tucked away in the nooks and crannies of your past. No, Valentine’s Day is no long...
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The Smart Mom Manual
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The Smart Mom Manual. The guide to being a great mom while maintaining your sanity and life balance. View my complete profile. Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Weeding out the Closet. By Winnie Yu for Completely You. It’s spring, and many people are outside weeding their gardens. Me? I’m inside weeding out my closet. I’m sure many moms know what I’m talking about. But why should it be that way? Why should it always be that our family’s needs come before ours? Moms, how do. She has two daughters (. Woman’s Day...
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The Smart Mom Manual: The Power of Meal Planning
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The Smart Mom Manual. The guide to being a great mom while maintaining your sanity and life balance. View my complete profile. Tuesday, January 24, 2012. The Power of Meal Planning. By Winnie Yu for Completely You. Nothing is worse than realizing at 5 o’clock in the afternoon that you’ve made no plans for dinner. That’s what happened to me one day: I had nothing in mind to feed my family. Nothing. Nada. Zilcho. Now what? I asked myself. Do I call the local pizzeria? Heat up some canned soups? Creating a ...
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The Smart Mom Manual
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The Smart Mom Manual. The guide to being a great mom while maintaining your sanity and life balance. View my complete profile. Tuesday, March 20, 2012. How to Deal With Jealousy. By Winnie Yu for Completely You. It would have been easy to hate her. But Sheila was kind and wonderful, which made her popular too. Everyone marveled at her charmed life - until we learned that her husband was having an affair. What we thought was so perfect clearly was not. Truth is we don’t really know what’s goin...That̵...
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The Smart Mom Manual: Guilty of Not Feeling Guilty
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The Smart Mom Manual. The guide to being a great mom while maintaining your sanity and life balance. View my complete profile. Tuesday, July 3, 2012. Guilty of Not Feeling Guilty. All moms have guilt … or do they? And that’s when the guilt set in. Don’t get me wrong; I’m no stranger to mom guilt. Who is? Mom guilt comes in all forms and from all directions. Me? Truth is, motherhood evolves and unfolds in its own unique way for every woman. There are no commandments to abide by. Skipping field tri...Still...
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The Smart Mom Manual. The guide to being a great mom while maintaining your sanity and life balance. View my complete profile. Wednesday, April 25, 2012. By Winnie Yu for Completely You. Like most moms, my time is tight. Although I’d prefer to do yoga two or three times a week, the reality is that I usually get to a class only once or twice a month. That’s why I’ve resorted to doing yoga in short spurts, most often at night when I’m in my pj’s and bathrobe. Could I change into my yoga clothes? No doubt, ...
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The Smart Mom Manual: Taming the Mess
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The Smart Mom Manual. The guide to being a great mom while maintaining your sanity and life balance. View my complete profile. Tuesday, January 31, 2012. By Winnie Yu for Completely You. Quick, look around your house. What’s lying around? I like to tell my family that we’d have an immaculate house if only we could adhere to these two simple sayings: “Give everything a home” and “Put everything away and you never have to clean up.”. But on my productive, I-should-have-a-cleaner-house days, I become a whir...
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