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Motherhood for the Introvert

Just in case you weren't aware, today marks an important holiday for the Asian community: lunar new year. This year is the year of the rabbit, and while I hardly pay attention to astrology (western or eastern), I can't help but share this awesomely cute picture with you: (image source) Because today is such an important day in the Chinese culture, J took the day off from work. And he gave me the best new year's day present — He took the baby out with him to dim sum and left me all by myself. For three, GLORIOUS hours. (Well, the dog was home too but let's just pretend he wasn't there for the sake of the story.) You guys, I can't tell you how...

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WordPress for the Everyday Blogger:
Part 1 – Setting Up

Now we get to the nitty gritty fun: developing your own WordPress theme! To make things a bit easier on myself — and for my readers so that they can see a live sample — I will detail how I built the theme I am currently using: (From now on I am going to assume that you have some knowledge of HTML and CSS. If you do not, I really, REALLY recommend that you learn! I truly believe that even a BASIC understanding of HTML and CSS will help you out tremendously as a blogger. Go check out W3Schools for some great tutorials. What about PHP — the language that WordPress is based on? You do not need to know PHP to build...

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