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Here is your daily link roundup for Friday:

• Mad Men Barbies Make Us Mad - Lemondrop
• Food Companies Get "F" in Marketing to Kids - Strollerderby
• Kate Gosselin Unveils New Hair... Again! - MomLogic
• Video Games that Are Actually Good for You - KidGlue

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A recent report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration shows that 12-year-olds are now using inhalants more than cocaine, hallucinogens, and marijunan combined.  The reason?  Availability.  Common household products from air fresheners to shoe polish can be huffed for a short-lived but intense high.  And the biggest problems is that only one use can cause death...

It's hard to go back and really think about how upset I was when I first found out I was pregnant, now that she's here, now that I love her so much. But I'm reminded every now and then of those first two weeks. Those terrifying weeks when my whole world was turned upside down. I didn't know what was going to happen with my life, my routine, my self. I didn't know if my health was going to hold up long enough to get a baby out or if it was going to hold up after he or she was here. I walked around those weeks like someone had just threatened my life.

So this morning I arrived  to work thinking that I have on very cute and coordinated outfit. I have on a red, brown, and white dress over a brown slip, brown knee boots, and little white cardigan with pearls to top it off.  Cute, right? Well, in theory, yes. Until I got to work and realized that I do not have on brown tights, but black ones. Yes, BLACK ones.  Nice...

Gulp down some sweet links!

• Going Dairy Free for Baby - CafeMom
• 10 Reasons Single People Make the Best Family Friends - lilsugar
• Celeb Baby Gear: Get the Look - Celebrity Baby Scoop
• Celebs Tweet Goodbye to Corey Haim - PopEater
• Glug, Glug, Glug - ParentDish

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I signed up for a half marathon a few months ago, back when I fell in love with running and thought it was my new BFF. 

Back-to-back blizzards, debilitating anxiety and a surprising bout of ugly depression sidelined the daily runs for a spell. 

But I put the jogging shoes back on my feet this past weekend and officially started the three-month training regimen. 

Turns out: I hate running just as much as I thought I did lo those many years ago...

Here is your daily link roundup for Thursday.

• Alexander McQueen's Final Confession - The Frisky
• Breast Milk Cheese - MomLogic
• In Defense of Barbie - Betty Confidential
• 7 Signs My Wii Fit Is Screwing with Me - Woulda Coulda Shoulda

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Kiss, the most sell-out of sell-out bands (they have a Kiss coffin, for Pete's sake!) have now signed a deal to develop a kids' television show in Canada.  Apparently, the Kiss Army needed new recruits to purchase the multitude of Kiss T-shirts, lithographs, gold records, posters, earrings, diaper bags, Mr. Potato Heads, footballs, pool sticks, coins, and... Demon Ducks...? 

“Children make you want to start life over.” Muhammad Ali

For me, that wasn’t possible in 2005 when our daughter, Hayden, was born. I was already more than two years into this crazy journey called Epilepsy, and my husband, the person you could call my ‘main’ caregiver, and I had made the decision to have a child...

Here’s what I did this morning: I followed the slow, painful death of a two year old little girl through my Twitter feed. Sound like a horrific way to the pass time? Well, it was...