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MotherNatureMI
  • 33, Female
  • Detroit-ish, MI
  • United States
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Check out Peek a Green for 100% safe, eco-friendly and unique baby/kid gifts. Alexandra
June 9
Be sure to check out http://www.earthpromise.com/ and http://www.earthpromise.com/blog/ Earth Promise is an online community dedicated to bringing people together who want to take better care of the environment. We provide an easy way for people ...
May 27
Thanks for posting this - while there's many of my favorites already here, I've picked up some new ones too! One of my current faves is Seven Planet - the first online green general store. They have great products, many that I've never seen befor...
May 2
The Little Seedling Blog is pretty good. I have it on my RSS feed.
April 30
Our website and blog are really moving up there in popularity. If you're looking for great green ideas for your next child's or adult birthday party, Mother's Day, or any holiday or celebration, please check us out: www.CelebrateGreen.net www.Cele...
April 28
I have a green retail website (www.babygreensprout.com) where I have listed green websites I like to visit. They are in the links section. Thanks for other ideas for sites!
March 27
Hi, I've been doing the same. Weeding out the really good ones that have meaning and can add worth to me. It's hard cause there are so many out there. I'll keep you posted and keep checking with you! Saucy Salsita, AKA The Sexy Hippie - Because se...
March 11
I really like IdealBite.com They email me a quick green idea every day (they also have a green mommy subgroup) which makes being green easier when it is done in smaller steps.
February 9

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http://detroit.momslikeme.com/members/groupabout.aspx?g=191230
What is your twitter URL?
http://twitter.com/MotherNatureMI
A little about yourself...
I have two kids, Maggie (11.01.02) and Gus (10.11.06), and have been happily married for almost 10 years (10.10.98). I'm a PT WAHM, although I'll likely return to FT WOHM in the next year. I also run a small (very!) graphic design business, Duck and Goose Designs, mostly making birth announcements, holiday cards, photo collages etc. You can see my work at www.duckandgoosedesigns.com.

I've recently given up sugar...permanently. I'm a sugar addict, and I figure that like an addict of anything else, the only solution is 100% abstention. So although I eat fruit and a couple of other naturally occurring sugars, I've given up all desserts and sweet snacks. Amazingly, I haven't had a single binge since. I had no idea the correlation between the two was so strong. I've officially been sugar free since June 23, 2008. I keep a more personal blog about that at sugarfreeforever.wordpress.com. WARNING: It's not pretty. This is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, and I'm brutally honest.

My other (happier!) interests include natural/green living, natural parenting, everything Irish, reading and cooking.
What kinds of things do you typically Twitter about?
Just the daily stuff of being a mom, a wife, a friend, and a woman.
What are your areas of interest?
mommyhood, business, blogging, technology, twitter, politics, fitness, weight loss, writing, breastfeeding, infertility

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I have mastitis

Could the universe crap on me anymore? It's not like I don't have enough on my plate. In addition to the big stuff - it looks like Nate's vision is not going to last much longer - we also have company coming tomorrow (MIL at that) and 2 birthdays in the next 3.5 weeks. And Christmas already looming. And we are BROKE. And work is stressing me out. And...

But back to the mastitis. The best part is how I got it. Because my almost-2-year old ACTUALLY slept 9 straight hours on Sun night, instead of… Continue

Posted on October 7, 2008 at 6:40am — 1 Comment

MotherNatureMI

Tough times 'round here

I'm so stressed. My DH has a genetic condition that leads to many medical problems. (Google Von Hippel Lindau if you're interested.) Right now, his eyes are the big issue. He's blind in one, but the other was always great until it went rapidly downhill in 2006 due to a detaching retina. He ended up having surgery in 1/2007. We thought it was all "fixed" and we were done with it and we could stop freaking out about him possibly going blind. Until the retina detached again very suddenly in July. :… Continue

Posted on October 3, 2008 at 6:53pm — 4 Comments

MotherNatureMI

Why I’m not on Twitter Moms as much as I want to be

Because computers suck! We got a new one back in January, and it has this fun little bug where certain websites always crash the internet. I literally can’t view those sites, or my ‘net crashes so hard that the only way to get it back is to reboot. Among the sites I can’t view: SmugMug, Diaper Swappers, CNN, etc. Well, guess what other site is on that list? You got it…Twitter Moms!

We DO have a laptop that I can successfully surf from, but the problem is that it was craptacular when we bought i… Continue

Posted on October 1, 2008 at 1:28pm —

MotherNatureMI

I'm a blogging fool today

I am SUCH a hot and cold, all or nothing type person. I can go a week or more without blogging, and then I'll have days like today where I blog 4 times! Check out my ruminations on living sugar free:

Sugar Free Forever

And if you're new to my blog (as I suspect most everyone here is), you can find out what precipated this whole thing and what exactly I'm doing if you read this handful of posts from when I first started blogging:… Continue

Posted on September 23, 2008 at 8:01pm —

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At 7:15pm on October 5, 2008, Sue Breeden said…
Hi MNMI, can I call you that ? :) Welcome to Obama Mamas group. Look forward to getting to know you better.
At 9:55am on September 25, 2008, Ambitious Green said…
Glad you're keeping the Green Mamas group vibrant!
At 8:05am on September 21, 2008, Brigitte Henry said…
Nice pic Michelle, Great seeing ya here on twittermom
At 5:03pm on September 20, 2008, Megan Calhoun said…
Welcome to twittermoms! The rumors are true -- I started this place. We've got an AWESOME group of women connecting on all sorts of topics, so make yourself at home. If you haven't already, check out the groups you find interesting, check out the discussions, view profiles of other moms, add friends, and start twittering with some great new people.

PS: You can let your friends know when you're on twittermoms with a click of the Announce Yourself button.
At 1:41pm on September 20, 2008, Anita said…
welcome - seems like we're almost neighborhours - just sitting on the other side of that crazy thing called the border!
At 8:55am on September 20, 2008, Tamara said…
Welcome to Twitter Moms its great to have you here. I hope you enjoy it here as much as I do
At 8:51am on September 20, 2008, journey2learn said…
Michelle, Welcome to Twittermoms! I love your designs. I will have to get you to do my Christmas cards. Now need to find a picture....Look forward to getting to know you.
At 5:48am on September 20, 2008, Karma said…
Welcome to Twittermoms!