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Kristi Rieger Campbell's passion is writing and drawing stupid-looking pictures for her blog, Finding Ninee. It began with a memoir about her special-needs son Tucker, abandoned when she read that a publisher would rather shave a cat than read another memoir. Kristi writes for a variety of parenting websites including Huffington Post Parents, has been published in several popular anthologies, received 2014 BlogHer's Voice of the Year People's Choice Award, and was a proud cast member of the DC Listen to Your Mother show. Find her on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

Do you ever think about whether making New Year’s resolutions changes your behavior? Does writing down a fitness goal make you stick to it? For some, the mere act of making a list is a reminder each day to go to the gym rather than checking Netflix’s recommendations. For others, it’s something that feels like […]

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Not to be a total bragger or anything, but it’s January 10th and my house still looks like it did on Christmas Day. As in, the tree and a billion decorations are still up. I mean, I’ve done a little bit – I’m not beyond dumping out the two vases of pine boughs that were […]

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A year. So long to wait for, and yet so brief in hindsight. We feel the same as we did 365 days ago while also marveling at how much we’ve changed. Different perspectives, evolving hairstyles, more memories, and the sense of time flying. On the last day of 2018, we reflect on what’s changed, and […]

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Every family tells stories each time they gather. They laugh over memories and moments. They remember the year your brother Tommy threw up on the Thanksgiving table after your uncle forced him to try brussels sprouts. “Just try them. Take a bite. If you don’t like them, you don’t have to finish them, but you […]

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There isn’t a particular holiday gift I got as a child that stands out in memory as being the best. None have become stories told to my own child, or are laughed about over Christmas dinners with my brothers. One year, I got the Barbie Dream House and pool, but that may have been for […]

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I’ll come right out and say it. I gave up some personal dignity last night. Heartfelt integrity even — because of holiday commercialism, of all things. As in… (*shuffles feet and looks sideways*) I gave into the Elf on the Shelf. I know. I’m more embarrassed by me than you are, I promise. And after […]

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