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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you to our wonderful speaker, Mandy Lloyd, for sharing "<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">The Connected Family: a Conscious Discipline presentation." We got so much positive feedback from members who really felt her information resonated with them. For more information, check out the website or contact her directly. </span></span></div>
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-16409750916859178262014-05-17T18:40:00.002-07:002014-05-17T18:40:29.963-07:00April Thank You<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Thank you to Heather Love for sharing all of her Montessori experience with us! We had a great meeting!</div>
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Thank you to chapter member Jenevieve Lentz for sharing all her experience and knowledge about financial planning with the chapter!<br />
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-71041268631399835222014-02-12T17:14:00.000-08:002014-04-07T17:24:07.022-07:00February Thank You<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-91072783411391878952014-01-15T06:50:00.004-08:002014-01-15T06:50:44.376-08:00January meeting - Self Care<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thanks to all who came out for our January meeting. We had a last minute change of topic and it was a great meeting! We brainstormed and shared ideas for ways we can care for ourselves. </div>
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-80184757983643032512013-11-18T06:31:00.001-08:002013-11-18T06:31:04.536-08:00November Thank You!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thank you to Robin Shirley for sharing her experiences of overcoming autoimmune disease. </div>
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She puts on the amazing <a href="http://www.takebackyourhealthconference.com/">Take Back Your Health Conference.</a> </div>
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-31546320681886645002013-10-06T17:44:00.002-07:002013-10-06T17:44:21.727-07:00Happy Holistic Living Month!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-33177616108509890432013-10-06T08:38:00.000-07:002013-10-06T17:42:24.355-07:00Sept Thank You!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A huge thank you to Dr Rene Hackney for speaking at our Sept meeting. It was a great topic. She offers wonderful parenting workshops often --check them out!</div>
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-78646931218373848102013-06-15T20:04:00.001-07:002013-06-15T20:06:11.739-07:00Thank you, Paleo Parents!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-74402135431204327922013-06-13T19:24:00.002-07:002013-06-13T19:30:21.590-07:00A huge thank you to MOMs for their continued support!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-1388155127894990382013-06-13T19:21:00.001-07:002013-06-13T19:30:33.084-07:00May homebrew meeting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-35025235308310024172013-04-10T20:16:00.001-07:002013-04-10T20:16:27.801-07:00March and April Thank Yous!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-23526577338639648902013-02-13T18:45:00.001-08:002013-02-13T18:45:44.964-08:00Feb thank yous!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-79835994773807197602012-10-16T20:22:00.003-07:002012-10-16T20:22:18.816-07:00Membership discount for October!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-17079668907048390352012-10-08T11:52:00.001-07:002012-10-08T11:53:53.725-07:00September Meeting Thank You!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-43688811707014217542012-08-21T19:56:00.001-07:002012-10-08T11:53:40.811-07:00August meeting thank you!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-27365514070001973702012-07-05T20:14:00.001-07:002012-08-21T20:00:28.255-07:00July Meeting: Intimacy and Parenthood<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Just a reminder that the meeting is next Tuesday at the NoVA Natural Birth Center. We hope to see you there! If you haven't met Dr Ruthie yet, you are missing out! :)</span><br />
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-60670316325522320102012-06-24T17:56:00.002-07:002012-06-24T17:56:23.674-07:00Meeting Changes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thanks to the large group who turned out to learn how to get started with canning. We had a lot of fun and everyone went home with tasty, organic, home-canned applesauce and strawberry jam! Yum!</div>Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-2669537650437230332012-04-04T07:16:00.000-07:002012-04-04T07:17:07.027-07:00Building Healthy Immunity<div style="text-align: center;font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; line-height: normal; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Thank you to Dr Margaret Gennaro for her great talk last night about healthy immunity!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; line-height: normal; "><a href="http://www.neckbackandbeyond.com/margaret-gennaro.shtml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">http://www.neckbackandbeyond.com/margaret-gennaro.shtml</a></div>Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-29132648360607184802012-03-07T18:12:00.002-08:002012-03-07T18:14:17.614-08:00Thank you to Stacy!<div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; ">We had a great meeting with Stacy of </span><a href="http://paleoparents.com/" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; ">PaleoParents.com</a><span ><span style="font-size: 100%;">. She was also kind enough to donate one of their pre-release copies of </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936608871/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bellaonlinepr-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1936608871">their</a><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936608871/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bellaonlinepr-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1936608871"> new book</a> to our lending library. Thank you!!!</span></span></div>Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749696624674352630.post-43393939681521728862012-03-01T06:45:00.004-08:002012-03-01T06:57:02.062-08:00<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 45px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mKK6CpPjvGs/T0-NvKVNwaI/AAAAAAAAd9w/lch1iC91p9o/s320/logo.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714942293523153314" /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>~PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR MARCH MEETING~</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Tuesday, March 6th, 6:30-8:30pm </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> "Paleo for the Whole Family" Join local blogger and mother, Stacy of </b> <a href="http://paleoparents.com/">http://paleoparents.com/</a> <b> as she shares her family’s experience with changing their eating habits to the Paleo diet. Local resources for whole foods, kid-approved recipes, and time and money saving tips will be included. Don’t miss it!</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Monthly meetings are open to members and first time visitors. If you</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>have visited us previously and this topic is appealing to you, please</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>consider becoming a member! Your membership dues help pay for the</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>events we hold. Our member only events are always changing and have included </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>playgroups, outings, Moms' night outs, journal club, preschool coop, and much more!</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>We hope to see you there!</b></div><div><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zdCsuc5XWfY/T0-NdZAfobI/AAAAAAAAd9k/MGaswUgJa_E/s320/ELAD-300x191.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714941988225130930" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 191px; " /><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div>Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05194020593225787920noreply@blogger.com0