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12 WAYS TO SAVOR MOMHOOD

4:26 AM
Make the days with your children count by Michele Ranard 1. Take as many luxurious bubble baths with your infant that you can possibly squeeze into your schedule. Memorize the luxurious softness and gorgeous scent of your baby’s skin. So much of motherhood is unromantic, and this can be a truly intimate time for you to lock up in your memory and return...

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ROYALS

8:12 PM
by M. Ranard “Come fair children! Retrieve Kipling and Milton from thy Power Ranger backpacks. Let us recline on eighteenth century Gustavian daybeds to devour sweet literature in the library. No, Jean-Charles, not the west wing library. Alas, fumes remain strong in the west as the paint on ceiling frescoes dries still. This was what I thought motherhood would be like when I daydreamed...

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