Our dear friend Audrey McClelland needs our thoughts and prayers. Her husband Matt was rushed into emergency surgery yesterday to remove a tumor on his bowel. We love Audrey and her family so much and wish so much we could wrap our arms around her right now. We’re sending prayers and warm, loving, healing thoughts non-stop.
Here is Audrey sharing a message about Matt:
This week brings us Live Talks that cover the gamut and then some. Get ready for a fabulous week of amazing experts, a variety of topics and LOTS of valuable conversation and information! Join us!
Monday, January 30, 1 pm EST – MAKING TECH WORK FOR YOU WITH CARLEY FROM DIGITWIRL
Carley Knobloch, host and Chief Twirler at Digitwirl.com will share her all-time favorite technology products and innovations to help you organize your life. If you’ve ever smacked your head and wondered, “Is there an app for that?!” join us for a talk about tech tools that help you save time, money and a little sanity. From managing the schedule to figuring out what’s for dinner— we’re covering it all!
Tuesday, January 30, 12 pm EST – EMPOWERING GIRLS WITH RACHEL SIMMONS
Bestselling author and founder of the Girls Leadership Institute, Rachel Simmons, will lead a Talk on helping our daughters to discover and embrace the best parts of their authentic selves. Bring your questions, your stories of raising your daughters and we’ll all learn skills for our girls (and us!) to live with integrity, personal authority and self-awareness.
Wednesday, February 1, 1 pm EST – TALKING WITH YOUR KIDS ABOUT SEX, DRUGS, ALCOHOL OR GRIEF
Sex, drugs, alcohol or grief: few topics are as stressful for parents – or as important for your kids. Dr. G, of AskDrG.com, will give you the words and tools to pass on your own values on these subjects to your children. We’ll address the issues that make you feel most anxious at home, and find new ways and ease to talk about them with your kids.
Thursday, February 2, 1 pm EST – GAME DAY AND SLOW COOKER RECIPES
Get ready – and hungry – for Game Day! Cold weather and football puts us in the mood for some tasty slow cooker recipes. Join us in our second Cooking Connections 2012 cooking class to share your favorites and be inspired by suggestions from others! Cooking Connections is brought to you by ConAgra Foods and ReadySetEat.com.
Friday, February 3, 2 pm EST – THE ALT DESIGN SUMMIT WRAP-UP WITH GABRIELLE BLAIR
Join Gabrielle Blair, Design Mom and a team of presenters from the Alt Design Summit to hear about the Summit highlights, the latest great design ideas, innovations and inspirations.
Great line-up, right!?!?! See you there!
Join us today for a Talk that can’t be missed. DadLabs creator Clay Nichols will be leading an all star line-up for Parental Control Bootcamp: eProofing the Kids’ Technology. Clay and his co-hosts will share their tips and insights on how to actually put into place all the great parental control mechanisms the geeks build into our gadgets and we parents don’t know how to use. We’ll let Clay tell you himself (you’ve got to watch his class intro video – it ROCKS!):
http://youtu.be/MbhNO6z1vHg
Please join us TODAY at 1 pm ET for Parental Contols Bootcamp with Clay Nichols!
In honor of today’s launch of the Global Motherhood platform on the Huffington Post, I have a post up there about the “village reporters” we met in Kenya this summer.
Through a program with the US Centers for Disease Control, the village reporters travel day after day and mile after mile to visit new and expecting moms and their kids in their homes to check on their health and provide assistance when needed – saving countless lives in the process. The village reporters are incredible and inspiring women (we danced and sang with them before joining them as they worked.)
Photo by Morgana Wingard, ONE
Since returning from the ONE Moms trip to Africa with the ONE Campaign, I’m constantly reminded of the village reporters and how, in many ways, we all have a duty to “check in on” and take care of each other, no matter on what side of the world we live.
You can read my HuffPost “Village Reporters” post here!
Join One Moms to learn more about how you can help fight poverty and disease – especially in ways that directly affect mothers and children.
The Motherhood lives on Brilliant Avenue. It’s true, and we like to think it was meant to be. With all the love, heart, creativity and smarts this community shares in your posts, comments to each other and the projects we do together – it is altogether perfect that this is where The Motherhood makes her home.
We wanted to share with you some pictures of the space (the goal was to make it like what the website would be IRL and we think it does just that!) If you’re ever in Pittsburgh, PA, let us know and we’ll have a party – or at least make you a great cup of coffee!
(We also have some other office pictures on Facebook here!)
