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SV MOMS GROUP BLOGS FOR HAITI

Collectively, we have a powerful voice.  Our messages and stories of aid, sadness, fear, shock and even hope made its way through the internet and social media tools upon learning about the devastation in Haiti.  We want to help and let the Haitians know that they are not alone.  In both small and large ways, the blogging community is here, getting the word out and using our united voices and sites to share love, concern and messages of hope.  Here are articles written by SV Moms Group Contributors since the earthquake.

• Techmamas:  Using Tech For Haiti Disaster Relief
  
• Sarah's Blog:  Haitian Relief Effort 10 Year Old Style
• Tech Savvy Mama:  Helping Haitians In Need and Websites For Discussing Current Events and Teaching Kids About Haiti
  
• Not Just A Working Mom:  Thinking Of Others
  
• Finding Bonggamom:  Helping Haiti
  
• (Rose) from Silicon Valley Moms Blog:  Saving the Bresma Orphans of Haiti
  
• Stimeyland:  Sometimes Words Are Small
  
• Two Kinds Of People:  Help For Haiti
• It's My Life:  More On The Bresma Orphans Of Haiti
  
• Confessions Of A Not So Well Behaved Woman:  Haiti
• Life Candy:  Delurk For Haiti
• Dirt and Noise:  5:00 Fridays
  
• This Mom Rocks It:  Sunday and Haiti
  
• We All Fall Down:  Shelterbox- Response to Haiti Earthquake - Help Haiti
• MaNNaHaTTaMaMMa: Every Penny Counts
• Just Precious:  Skip The Sitter, Help Haiti
• A Mommy Story:  Delurk And Help Haiti, Too!
• LA Story:  In The Spirit of MLK, Let's Help Haiti
• (Yvonne) from Los Angeles Moms Blog:  One Mother's Struggle To Get Adopted Daughter Out Of Haiti
• (Paige) from Silicon Valley Moms Blog:  Haiti And The Teachable Moment
• (Janelle) from Chicago Moms Blog:  Compassion Is The Answer
• Yvonne In LA:  Wonderful News!  Friend's Daughter Is On Her Way Out Of Haiti  and a HAPPY ENDING
• Hannemanics:  Trying To Be Good Makes Me Feel Bad
• Darling Hill:  Lawyer/Blogger PunditMom Urges Readers to DeLurk and Donate #Moms4Haiti
• I Never Signed Up For This:  A Never-Seen View Of Haiti
• Parentopia:  Combine and Remind:  Disaster Relief For Haiti and Help For Hurricane Katrina Survivors
• Teach Mama:  Talking To Kids About The Earthquake In Haiti
• Parent Grapevine:  Help For Haiti
• Their Bad Mother:  Between Haiti And Lisbon And All The Uncertain Places In Between
• Girlymama:  How $2.29 Moved Me To Tears and It's In Our Power To Act 
• Blogalicious:  Using Social Media For Good
• Lady M:  Shoes, Friends, Memories, Haiti
• Meg's Idle Chatter:  Talking To Kids About Haiti
• Tales From The Crib:  A Personal Connection......
• Garza Girl:  Managing Kids Earthquake Fears
• Chefduck Musings: The Crisis in Haiti On Martin Luther King Day
• The French mommy Born In California...:  What Works To Fight Poverty And Is Set Up To Affect Thousands In Haiti?
• Wife And Mommy:  What More Can I Do?
• Is This REALLY My Life?:  You Too Can Support Relief Efforts In Haiti and Utah Quilting Bee To Help Haiti
• Me Too You:  The Jar For "Old Man" and Haiti.....
• (Jill) from Silicon Valley Moms Blog:  Silicon Valley Efforts To Bring Team of Physicians, Nurses & Medical Supplies to Haiti
• PunditMom:  Mother's Of Intention - Are We Going To Let Haitian Orphans Die? 
• (Amy Z) from 50-Something Moms Blog: Hoops for Haiti – How Local Can Touch Global

SV Moms Group presents....the SV Moms Group BEST OF 2009 Posts

Happy 2010 to all!

We are pleased to share with you the SV Moms Group BEST OF 2009 Posts, as self-selected by our amazing and wonderful community of bloggers.

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SILICON VALLEY MOMS BLOG

• Linsey:  Celebrating Jedi Training
• David:  Twitter is Bad For You
• Angela O.: One Garbage Bag Later: The Beauty of a Little Tough Love
• Samantha:  It's Sunday, I'm Not at Church. Are you?
• Tina:  The Name on the Diploma that Really Matters
• Nicole:  Open Source Spring Break in San Francisco
• Monica:  Jedi Don’t Pick Their Noses, and Other Things I Never Thought I’d Say
• Robyn:  Good-bye pajamas, Hello working-from-home
• Linda:  The Tooth Fairy Needs A Standard Rate Chart
• Maxine:  Scabies, Strep Throat, H1N1, and only three weeks into the first year at school...
• Darryle:  Mother's Day Matters
• Sidney:  Lice, Lice Baby
• Rox:  If Adam Lambert Does It, Why Can't My Son?
• Simon:  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor? I'll go with the first.
• Joan:  Stay at Home & Working Moms - Getting into a Groove
• Gina:  It's Between Me and Santa
• Kimberly:  Overscheduled Kids? No, Overscheduled Mom
• Erica:  Technology Has Made Me Stupid
• Ana:  Sanctimommy or Safetymommy?
• Michele:  Halloween Candy Count Reaches Triple Digits
• Stacy:  Dear Dads with Daughters
• Akemi:  A Mammogram and a Red Carnation
• Jamie:  If My Family Stopped Eating We Would Be Rich
• Paige:  One Child Left Behind
• Alix:  Dear Boy Scouts of America, Shoot!
• Stacy P.: Learning from Losing
• Sharon:  Coming Out Against Homework
• Kristen:  Confessions of a Mini-Van Mom
• Jessica:  All I Want for Christmas is Time
• Jill M.:  The Great Tree Debate: Real or Artificial?
• Meghan:  A Letter About a Gun
• Sarah E.: I Can't Handle Having a Nanny
• Jill A.:  "Happy Birthday" Has Taken On A Whole New Meaning.... Post Cancer
• Sheila:  Health Care Debate Comes to Silicon Valley
• Lisa:  Time Magazine- SEX and the Cito Cocoon?
• Karianna:  Who's Afraid of a Second Grader?

NEW JERSEY MOMS BLOG

• Lori Landau:  An Open Letter To My Son On His 16th Birthday
• Desiree:  God's meter is broken
• Kate B.:  The Shag, The Up-do, and The Mom
• Mary Kate:  Cell Hell
• Michelle:  Victoria's Secret...The Scoop
• Theta:  Giving the Film Industry the Finger - Now in 3D!
• Melissa S.: Time Flies When You've Got Kids
• Cristie:  Taming the Savage Beast
• Alicia:  Retail Woes Of A 40 Year Old: Whats In Between Juniors And Ladies?
• Jennifer:  Multiple Mania and Irresponsible Doctors
• Tracy: My Kids Not Going To College
• Sandra:  Mommy, Daddy's Teasing Me Again
• Meghan:  Battle of the Binky
• Mary Tara:  What Mom Wants is a Nightgown

CHICAGO MOMS BLOG

• Shannon: Anybody want to be my business partner in a drive-thru toilet paper store?
• Karen:  Embracing My Deaf Self
• Melanie:  bumpaholic? i don't think so...
• Alma:  Buckle up and vaccinate
• Nancy Loo:  Thank Heaven for Little Stink Bombs
• Farrah:  Un-Romantic Texter
• Sophia:  Aging Drivers and the Children Who Love Them
• Caitlin:  Blocked on Twitter? Who Me? Couldn't Be!
• Cindy:  A Tale of Two Couples
• Lisa H.: Haunted By Christmases Past
• Angela:  Theater of the Absurd
• Tracey:  Playground Hierarchy
• Susan:  iPhones — New Hope for Special Needs Kids
• Cynthia:  The Yelling House
• Janelle: Overwhelmed but not Out
• Miss Lori:  Names will never hurt me
• Marie:  My Kind of Town
• Kim:  I Will Become A Woman In 2010
• Cheryl:  The Special Needs Mom Versus "The Future"
• Sandra:  Kindergarten Rejection
• MJ:  Simplifying My Lifestyle

CANADA MOMS BLOG

• Karen:  Nobody's Perfect 
• Karen Green:  Not On The Guest List
• Natasha:  Falling upon the sexiness of frigid Canada
• Haley-O:  Breathe In, Breathe Out: Yoga for Moms
• Kami:  Summer Vacation, Somebody Save Me From my Kids
• Janet:  Canadian Road Trip
• Kerry:  Hello: My name is ___?
• Jessica:  Telling them Poppa died
• Sherry:  Stepping up to help out
• Angella:  Let's Talk About Sex, Baby
• EarnestGirl:  How Did I Get Here?
• Shannon:  Have you had that baby yet?
• Nenette:  A Note to Pre-Baby Me
• Fawn:  Is Three a Crowd?

NEW YORK CITY MOMS BLOG

• Helen P. : Feminism Is Not A Bad Word
• Carloyn E.:  The King of All Bad Words
• Amy O:  So You've Done Something Dumb
• Rebecca:  Advice Not Wanted
• Kelcey:  Where's That 20-something Girl?
• Becca:  Don't Quit Your Day Job, Tooth Fairy
• Marinka:  Curses
• Karen:  How I Know I'm a Mom
• Pamela:  Leaving the kitchen table
• Dagmar:  Why Spanking is Not For Me
• Beth F.: Mean Girls
• DeborahQ:  Define Good Insurance
• Adelaide:  So Long Sarah
• Deb F.: On the Road: Balancing Travel, Work & Motherhood
• Nancy:  And the Mom-cademy Award Goes to...
• Esti:  Are You Jewish?
• Aimee:  Birthday Party, Smirthday Party
• Jessica:  I Love Big Kids

DC METRO MOMS BLOG

• Justice Fergie:  Identity Crisis
• Sarah:  The Class of 2022
• Devra:  He has a higher security clearance than the school bus driver. So shouldn't you be able to trust him with your kids?
• Aimee Olivo:  DC's Ultimate Celebrity Sighting: President Obama
• Stephanie:  The First Rule of Poop
• Kimberly:  He's Lucky the Baby Wasn't Born Right There in the Drive Thru
• Kate:  The Island of Misfit Toys
• Jodi:  When Your Preschooler's Self Esteem Is Suffering
• Dawn M.:  The Metrobus is My Car
• Susan:  Nailing the New Normal
• Jean:  Why I Curse in Front of My Kids
• Jessica:  It Isn't, It Wasn't, Oh No You Didn't
• Amy M.: Dear Golf, I Totally Hate Your Guts
• Michelle:  Insurance, Guarantees, and Promises
• Suzie:  Stepping into my parents' shoes
• Thien-Kim:  I Want My Kid to Fall at the Playground
• Joanne:  When is it Time for "The Talk?"
• Stacy K.: How to be the best in-laws
• Jill:  Flying Steerage...uh, I Mean Economy
• Nicole:  My Ectopic Pregnancy Gone Horribly Wrong
• Diana:  Of Vaginas And Hoo-Has
• Gayle:  I Have A Mom Purse
• Linda:  Defeated by Downtown DC
• Sandie:  My First Orphaned Birthday
• Claire Jess:  A Bra Costs WHAT?
• Sue:  Then again, sometimes you DO get a second chance
• Leticia: I Quit the PTA
• Julie T.: Transgressions: A Suburban Mom's Open Letter to Tiger Woods
• Delora:  When to Say Goodbye to a Beloved Pet

DEEP SOUTH MOMS BLOG

• Nicki:  There's Never Enough Time
• Liza:  Open Letter to Scholastic Book Fair
• Ilina:  Who Aren't You Calling American?
• Amy@UPM:  Cupcakes for a Stronger America
• Shanna:  I once considered stealing a baby
• Jamie:  Divine Secrets of the Mesh Panties Sisterhood
• Stephanie:  Friday Night Flashback
• Jen: In the Red
• ChristinaY:  Dear Preschool: My Checkbook is empty!
• Angie:  No more excuses, baby...it is ON!

LOS ANGELES MOMS BLOG

• Amanda:  When Grandma Met Fabio
• Teresa D. : P.H. (posthumously) I Love You
• Erin:  God for Beginners
• Lexi:  This Too Shall Piss
• Elizabeth A.:  Jumping into the Fray
• Florinda:  Baby dreams and bad timing
• April:  What to do when Daddy's in jail?
• Sarah:  Travel Without Children = Heaven
• Amy:  And Then The Unthinkable Happened
• Kim:  Playdate Deadbeat
• Jessica: Yoo Hoo, I'm Right Here! No Here! Hello?! Can You Hear Me?!
• Jeannine:  The Fairy Tale
• Laura:  How Camp Snoopy Almost Killed Me
• Elise:  Religion Skips a Generation in My Family
• Ciaran:  Thank You, Thank You, Thank You... I mean it!
• Elizabeth P.:  Diaper Dealer
• Liz D.: A Black President For My Black Sons
• Ana:  Does Pink Really Stink
• MC:  Drowning in Recyclables
• Donna:  And Now, I'm Dieting for Two
• Yvonne:  Life Lessons I Hope They Don't Remeber
• Sweatpantsmom: I wouldn't know a celebrity if they moved in next door to me
• Kimberly:  When your personal values may be bad for your kids
• Eunice:  Call of the Wild

ROCKY MOUNTAIN MOMS BLOG

• Emily:  My pre-teen daughter, her body image and an overly concerned dad
• Daphne:  One House Two House Nude House Prude House
• Michelle B.: A Day Out Shopping with the Terrible Twos
• Melospiza:  Children are different: the list
• Brie:  The Unnatural Outcast
• Allison:  Have Poop, Will Travel
• Kalli:  H1N1 Vaccinations and the ensuing paranoia
• Mandi:  Good Mom / Bad Mom ... Thou Shall Not Judge
• Oz:  Motherhood Has Turned Me Into My Father

PHILLY MOMS BLOG

• Lynn:  Three Little Words
• Amy:  Girls and Science
• Teresa:  A Mummerific Happy New Year to You
• Michelle:  Ladies & Gentleman, The President of The United States
• Julie:  Two Kids React to the Death of Their Grandfather
• Cecily:  Outfest 2009: Shaping My Daughter's Thoughts on Gender
• Courtney:  Under The Table
• Lindsay:  She's Just Not That Into Me
• Melissa:  what kind of mom forgets her baby in the car?
• Mary Fran:  Mother's Day--Bah, Humbug!
• Whitney:  Dealing with death: the loss of a beloved pet
• Kay:  Learning to Read

50 SOMETHING MOMS BLOG

• Jennifer:  Layoffs, Pirates, Swine Flu, Oh My
• Amy Z.: Significant Other Sleepover, or Not Under My Roof 
• Annie:  Lying About Health Care Reform
• Alicia:  The Compromise That Saved Christmas
• Lollie:  Dear Kate: Welcome to Single Motherhood
• Donna:  The Deal with School Selection

OHIO MOMS BLOG (our newest site, just launched in December 2009!)

• Rachel:  Mommy Friends
• FireMom:  Baby, It's Cold Outside
• Marianne:  Flyover Me
• Momo:

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