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    Happy Birthday, Mama!

    Today is my dear mom’s birthday. (Happy Birthday, Mom!)

    I have to confess that I get her the exact same present for every single one of her birthdays: I make a photo calendar of the past year. (But it’s okay because you like it, right Mom?). I figure I get more creative and original for Christmas and Mother’s Day, so it’s nice to have a good ol’ standby for the third holiday.

    Snapfish always does a speedy and satisfactory job printing and mailing the calendar. I always search retailmenot for a coupon before I place my order. This year, I saved a ton (although I would have paid full price

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    Checklist for Preparing Our Relationship for Pregnancy

    A kindred spirit left a thought-provoking comment on this post last week. I realized that Matt and I need to write “An Action Plan for Maintaining Our Marriage Through the Difficult Years of Raising a Child.”

    But before we do that, I feel like we need a “Checklist for Preparing Our Relationship for Pregnancy.”

    Hmm…this is a daunting task!

    Let me take a stab at it…

    1. Equally distribute household responsibilities: Matt and I are doing well with this one. Because we both work full-time, we pretty much divide chores evenly. We made a list of everything that has to get done on a weekly basis and split it into two
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