To close out Style Week, Merelymothers is proud to share this guest post by our fellow blogger and friend, Danielle Jefferson of ThingsCarterSays. I don’t know when it happened. I can’t pinpoint a date or a time.  Not even a general year.  It obviously didn’t happen all at once.  If it were one big traumatic [...]

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Challenging the Mom Fashion Paradigm: Mom Style and the Media

Thumbnail image for Challenging the Mom Fashion Paradigm: Mom Style and the Media by Sarahlynne May 16, 2012

Merelymothers has devoted this whole week to style: mom style, getting your groove back, and how to feel sexy when your day is playgrounds, nap time, and diaper changes. As we prepared for style week, we looked for inspiration everywhere. Magazines, television show moms, movie moms, print ads; everywhere there was a mom, we noticed [...]

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Queen of the Fashion Faux Pas

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As part of style week, Merelymothers is proud to share the following guest post by our friend and fellow blogger, Kelly Bevan McIlquham of Renaissance Mom. A Mommy Fashionista I am not! I am the type of person who wore a scrunchy way past its expiration date. Add to that list Jordache skinny jeans, Flashdance sweatshirts, [...]

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Top-Ten Tuesday: Cheap and Easy Ways to Feel Better and Look Fabulous!

Thumbnail image for Top-Ten Tuesday: Cheap and Easy Ways to Feel Better and Look Fabulous! by Evanthia May 14, 2012

When you’re caring for little ones all day, it’s so easy to forget to take care of yourself. And then eventually one day you catch a glimpse of your reflection in a store window and don’t even recognize the person you’ve become! In an effort to make myself a priority, I’ve come up with a [...]

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Welcome to Style Week! (And Check Out Our Blog Makeover!)

Thumbnail image for Welcome to Style Week! (And Check Out Our Blog Makeover!) by Evanthia May 13, 2012

First of all, Happy Mother’s Day to all our readers! We hope it was special for you Also, welcome to our new site! We’ve put a lot of time, effort (and a few glasses of wine!) into redesigning merelymothers, so we hope you’ll love it as much as we do!! You may have noticed that [...]

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Lessons Worth Passing On

by Evanthia May 10, 2012
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When I was only eight, my entire family was in a horrible car accident that left some of us in the hospital for a month. It was a gruesome experience that I believe ultimately changed us all for the better. It taught us to try to appreciate each day and never wait to tell someone [...]

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Enter the Two Year Old: Hello Independence

Thumbnail image for Enter the Two Year Old: Hello Independence by Sarahlynne May 9, 2012

In a few months, my son will be two. And I can feel it; our relationship is changing. It’s kind of cool. We can actually have conversations about things. Case in point. Today we had to make a quick stop at Kohl’s. (If you’ve been there, you know their carts are like strollers and for [...]

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