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For gift swap or gift exchange virgins (or yankee gift swap for my East Coast friends),  this is how it works. The host or hostess asks you to bring a gift for the gift exchange. When you get to your party, you pick a number out of a bowl, and that number is your turn to chose a gift from the pile or steal a gift from another guest. I didn’t want to look greedy and pick the largest gift or pry the fancy wine opener out of my neighbor’s hands.

According to the National Foundation for Infection Diseases the U. S., each year, one million adults will contract pneumonia, and 400,000 will end up hospitalized, of those hospitalized 5-7% of them will die. With flu season coming, the one thing I can give my weary head a rest about is that she doesn’t balk at getting her pneumonia and flu vaccines. The NFID site states, “Pneumonia is caused by a common type of bacteria, often presents itself with shaking chills, fever, shortness of breath or rapid breathing, chest pain that is worsened by breathing deeply and a productive cough. Thankfully, in the U. S., safe vaccines are available and are recommended for all adults over 65 and for adults 19-64 if they suffer from asthma or diabetes.

I also learned by watching what my fellow writers were doing: Where they published their writing, how they crafted their pieces and how they promoted their work was like a crash course in freelance writing and marketing. Sometimes this is a struggle because life happens so it’s important to try to carve out time to write every single day, even if somedays it’s just your grocery list. The Washington Post, On Parenting The New York Times, Well Family Scary Mommy Real Simple Family Circle Babble ParentMap Mamalode The Good Men Project Divorced Moms New York Magazine, The Cut Books: (I am an Amazon Affiliate and receive a small compensation from purchases made through the links in this post.)

It’s thrilling, exciting, and stressful, and you’ll probably be wondering how on earth you’ll fit all this stuff into your child’s tiny matchbook-size dorm room? I learned this the hard way when much of what I thought my darling offspring desperately needed was given away, thrown out or sold for pennies when they moved out of their dorms. The Complete Campus Collection from OCM offers the easiest, fastest and most cost efficient way to purchase whatever your child needs most. OCM has been helping millions of families outfit dorm rooms (care packages, graduation gifts and more) for almost 40 year and gives back a portion of each purchase to the student’s school.