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Velveteen Mind

http://www.velveteenmind.com

Relish the Velveteen. Revel in the Threadbare. Life of a mom articulate.

• Added on: Sep 15th, 2007
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Megan Jordan
• Listed in: Parenting Writing
• Tags: family children babies motherhood stay-at-home moms work-at-home moms

Recent Posts

• These Small Hours

  Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 17:46 in baby, kids, being mom, family & marriage

  Little Wonders - Rob Thomas *In celebration of our daughter’s birth and in thanks for all of your love and support, those are our kids’ real names in the photos above.  Please don’t mention them in the comments, as I’d stil...

• A Lamaze Birth Plan for the Rest of Us

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 09:12 in baby, books, home, kids, babies, pregnancy, motherhood, Delivery, labor, birth, breathing techniques, being mom

  (Updates publishing at bottom of post + more on twitter) My hands smell like Dreft. I am surrounded, on my bed, by a foreign sea of pink. My belly periodically morphs into the shape of an almond, pointy end suggestively aiming toward the door… Ever...

• Icons and Inventory: I Can't Be Their Dooce to My Postpartum Depression

  Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 16:36 in baby, depression, pregnancy, mental health, motherhood, baby blues, maternity, postpartum, postpartum depression, mama drama, being mom, threadbare self

  Did you notice that? A flash. A glimpse? An unexpected swell. Olive is due within weeks, if not days. All of my emotions have settled directly into my chest and occasionally push the breath right out of me. When I least expect it, they flood upward, ...

• Time To Rest and Reflect.

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 12:16 in travel, baby, writing, pregnancy, motherhood, conferences, maternity, wordless wednesday, sisterhood, type a, being mom, mommybloggers

  The Type-A Mom Conference was wonderful. It was exactly what I needed to invigorate my mind and settle my soul before the baby arrives. This baby that has now attended three writing conferences. What stories! What support. But whew. Am I tired. Stori...

• How to Get Pen Ink Out of a Microfiber Couch. Or How I\'m Not a Type A Mom but I Play One in North Carolina.

  Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 10:14 in travel, home, kids, writing, conference, pbs, conferences, hand sanitizer, audioblog, pbs kids, sprout, pen ink

  {Audioblog} Download 'How To Get Pen Ink Out of a Microfiber Couch' read by the author Quick!  How do you get scrawled ink out of a microfiber couch without ruining it? An organized mom would know this.  Someone like Simpl...

• Don't Let the Fairy Dust Gag You: Phenomenon of Blog Closures After Conferences

  Posted on Wednesday September 16th, 2009 at 12:58 in writing, blogher, mommybloggers

  The rush of social media can be tempting. We dip our toes into its magical waters via message boards or Facebook or Twitter, perhaps eventually start a blog, rarely with a definite goal in mind. Almost always without a map. Before we know it, we a...

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Amy

Yours is the second blog I ever read and it is fantastic!

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