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Beth Anne Ballance

Beth Anne Ballance is a born and bred Southern Belle, blogging at Okay, BA!. Deeply personal with hilarious tales from the trenches, Beth Anne holds nothing back when discussing marriage and faith, depression and miscarriage. Nationally syndicated and a 2010 Blog Luxe Award nominee for Most Inspiring, she topped categories in the Mommy Blog Awards from The Bump, and her writing has been featured on Huffington Post, Yahoo! Shine, ABC News, and US News. Beth Anne adores good books, rich coffee, to-do lists, and being romanced by her husband of more than six years.

We Cannot Wait for Disney’s Planes Movie

My son is obsessed with Disney’s Cars and Cars 2. It was the first movie he sat through all the way without wiggling or losing interest and Lightning McQueen has been a staple in our home since that day. We own almost every die-cast car from the series and you can always find me digging MORE »

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Encouragement for Formula Feeding Moms

Dear momma with the bottle, I want you to know that it's okay. That you're making a good decision and your baby is going to be just fine. I see that bond that you share, that you're providing him with life and food and love and that's something that flows from a mother's heart, not just a mother's breasts.

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I Have Baby Rabies

Today I was sitting at my desk, minding my own HTML, and experienced a vicious, visceral attack of baby fever. I had the shakes and the cravings to rock a baby to sleep and oh, how I could hear the little baby sighs and the soft light coming through the nursery window and the steady creak of the need-to-be-oiled gears in the chair.

13 days ago

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Top 10 Toddler Parent Apps

I use my phone and iPad so often for myself and my family affairs that I can barely remember life without them. Here are my favorite apps for life with a toddler!

14 days ago

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Co-Sleeping With Toddlers: Trusting Momma Instincts

It’s 8 PM and I tuck my three-year-old into his little toddler bed. We read books and say prayers and I tuck blankets around him, making sure his lovies are in their correct places. He grins and throws his arms around my neck and my husband and I both give him a kiss, an “I MORE »

27 days ago

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10 Life Lessons My Toddler Can Learn From My Job

This Thursday is Take Your Child to Work Day. I remember as a little girl dressing up to go to work with my father; he was the CFO of a research company and always made time for Take Your Daughter to Work Day. One year I wore a grey dress with apples embroidered on the MORE »

28 days ago

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Toddler Cough: What Is Croup?

This morning at 4am, we had our first real health scare with our son where we raced to the emergency room – even the antibiotic allergy rash didn’t compare. He woke up with a horrible, sudden cough. He was unable to breathe or speak and cried that it hurt. He wheezed and my heart froze with MORE »

33 days ago

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Ovarian Cysts: What Moms Should Know

Last week my OB/GYN found a rather large cyst on my right ovary. I’m not a stranger to ovarian cysts – I’ve had a ton of little ones throughout my teenage and adult years, plus one big one that ruptured back in 2008. But this time, the doctor suggested that we remove the cyst through MORE »

34 days ago

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Let Them Be Little: Sheltering Children During Tragedy

There is a lot of information swirling around the internet about the Boston Marathon tragedy and as always, it is raising up questions and post about the exposure our children should have to these events. I’m going to be honest…I haven’t read a single one. Not because I don’t think they are probably well-thought and MORE »

34 days ago

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Why Is My Toddler Crying?

Over the past week, the blog “Reasons My Son Is Crying” has gone viral. I think every parent, especially toddler parents, completely understand this dad and the hilarity of the toddler tantrums. Wrong spoon? Wrinkled sock? You won’t let him lick the inside of the toilet? TEARS. EPIC TEARS. My husband and I have laughed over MORE »

34 days ago

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