This is absolutely one of the funniest books I have ever seen on the subject of being a mother. I was giggling non-stop looking through it,
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I ran across a fantastic photoblog: LightningSmokestacks, the photos are beautiful and inspiring.

The photographer is extremely talented and has a great eye for composition. Look particularly at the categories; Historical Britain and North Wales, which contain pictures of my native land, especially the ones of North Wales.

He also has some great pictures of New York City , mostly very attractive shots of Manhattan.

Have a look!

Best Thing Found: Zenni Optical

The average optometrists marks up eyeglass frames by up to 10,000 %!
Those high priced designer Italian frames are made in China, the same frames are sold for dollars to optometrists and resold for hundreds of dollars to you.
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Best Thing Found: Zenni Optical

The average optometrists marks up eyeglass frames by up to 10,000 %!
Those high priced designer Italian frames are made in China, the same frames are sold for dollars to optometrists and resold for hundreds of dollars to you.
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Jeani Read, The Province

It was three in the morning.

New mom Annemarie Tempelman-Kluit found herself wandering around the house, ravenously hungry, wondering if she could stand to eat another container of yogurt or another healthy cookie or bowl of cereal. Again.

“It’s awful!” she says. “People tell you a lot of stuff about having a baby, but nobody tells you what to do after you have the baby. Nobody told me I’d be that hungry, or that thirsty. You don’t realize how little time you’re going to have. I thought there had to be a better way.”
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An excerpt from the Simon & Schuster website:

Chapter 1: The Crisis of National Identity

Salience: Are the Flags Still There?

Charles Street, the principal thoroughfare on Boston’s Beacon Hill, is a comfortable street bordered by four-story brick buildings with apartments above antique stores and other shops on the ground level. At one time on one block American flags regularly hung over the entrances to the United States Post Office and the liquor store. Then the Post Office stopped displaying the flag, and on September 11, 2001, the liquor store flag flew alone. Two weeks later seventeen flags flew on this block, in addition to a huge Stars and Stripes suspended across the street a short distance away. With their country under attack, Charles Street denizens rediscovered their nation and identified themselves with it.
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