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Notes about the Blog

Quick Check In

by cv harquail May 4, 2012

Blogging gurus advise that, if you’ve been absent from your blog and not posting for a while, that you shouldn’t worry about it OR apologize for being MIA.  But for me, it feels like the longer I go without a post, or without an explanation or a comeback plan, the worse it feels. Long time [...]

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10 Most Engaging Posts of 2010 on Au Pair Mom

by cv harquail December 31, 2010

Each of us has a topic or two that really hits our hot buttons… but have you ever wondered which topics we all seem to want to talk about? In an ‘end of the year retrospective’ moment, I went back and looked over the posts for this past year to see which ones were the [...]

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Who’s Hoo? List of Contributors

by cv harquail June 25, 2010

Add your screen name and a brief description to our new List of Contributors!

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From “All of Us at AuPairMom”: A note

by cv harquail June 18, 2010

I was just sending an email to Anna, to wish her well with the impending arrival of her new baby, and I *really* wanted to send her hugs from everyone here on the blog. Similarly, a few days ago I emailed another contributor who has been going through chemo, again wanting to send her collective [...]

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Happy Birthday & Thanks to all of us!

by cv harquail May 23, 2010

It’s a special day! AuPairMom is celebrating its 2nd Birthday! For two years, with 370 posts, 9,000+ comments, and 46,000 visitors, we’ve been pooling our wisdom to make the experience of hosting an Au Pair and being an Au Pair better and better. In the olden days, there were no cluster meetings for host parents. [...]

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Posting Frequency: How often would like like a new post? (Poll)

by cv harquail May 7, 2010

Hi Readers, In anticipation of this blog’s second birthday (I know, they grow up So Fast!), I’m starting a little bit of spring blog-keeping… just general blog admin, much of it behind the scenes. I want to update the blog in ways that matter to you, so there are a few elements of blog-keeping where [...]

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Quick Update about Comments

by cv harquail May 4, 2010

Hi Readers- I want to let you know that I’ve made a small change in the Comments process. Folks who want to comment will now be asked to enter an email address.  You can still stay anonymous to the blog readership by using a pseudonym, a ‘nom de mom/dad’, or a nickname.

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