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Food for the (Proud Parent’s) Soul

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Each mom has something that they feel especially proud of as a mother, something they did that they will remember fondly through the years. When I was pregnant, many veteran moms shared with me their amazing journey with breastfeeding and...

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You Can’t Win

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I knew going into Motherdom that I would probably be a worrying wreck of a parent. After all, my genealogical roots were firmly planted in the worrying wreck ground. And the first few weeks after Baby Girl was born proved...

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Leap…and the Net Will Appear

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After blogging for a couple of months I felt a change coming. When I first started writing, I had just come out of the hospital from having our baby. Literally, I got home on Sunday and started designing, building, and writing...

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What’s a Rubio?

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While I don’t normally like typical “family” names (I knew way too many families with Mario, Big Mario, and Little Mario), I’m fine with naming a girl after a boy or vice versa. I also liked old, Spanish names like...

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The Dawning of {Family} Time

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Since making the decision to teach and live abroad, I have felt myself actively appreciate what our life has to offer in a way that I never did when I was living in the States. We have so much family time, spending whole afternoons...

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Lucky Ducks

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The time gets away from me every day. Everyday since Sunday I’ve been meaning to make time to be alone with my husband for a moment, an hour, an anything, and everyday it gets away from me. So I will...

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I Never Doubted Myself: Four Months

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After Rafaella’s first month, I knew I had grown but this baby raising thing was hard. Hard. At the time, there didn’t seem to be any of those googly movie moments with sun-kissed filters that come with being a mom. Of...

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My Story, Valentine

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We all have a story. Each chapter of our life tells a different part of that story. Sometimes the characters change, sometimes the characters you meet in the beginning are the characters that are with you until the end. Sometimes...

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The Feeding Project

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When we learn to walk or ride a bike, we try, we fall, we scrape our knee and then we get up and try again. By the time we get older, it is understood that learning new things is hard...

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In This Place

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Rafaella Rubio Kaufman Legra was born on October 7 at 9:28pm. By 9:29pm, daddy was crying in the hospital room like a newborn baby girl. I was not. When we brought Rafaella home and placed her in her bassinet to...

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Jennifer Legra ⎮ Author

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Jennifer Legra is a writer, personal growth mentor, and community consultant that helps people uncork and savor their best lives. Drinking the Whole Bottle was created as a reminder that each person can create a delicious life by celebrating small moments, finding magic in the mundane, and making choices in the direction of the life they want. Our lives are a collection of our days, collect them with wonder. She has been featured in leading media outlets. She currently lives in Mexico with her Husband, kids, and rescue dogs.

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