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"A Parent Understands What a Child Does Not Say"
"Blackened" Waffles represent Love!
"Donut" You Want to Pay It Forward?
"Get Fit on Route 66" A Fun Event This Weekend!
"I Know That Mom!"
"Like, Share and Win!" CDM's Facebook Page Through March 22
"Oh … The Places You'll Go"
"Run 100 Miles for Carl" This Saturday at Washington Park
"Stamp Out Hunger" At Your Mailbox Saturday
"Stop Making Me Be Mean" Siblings!
"To Ride or Not to Ride a Two Wheeler" One Mom's Story
$1 Buys A Kodak Moment
$5,000 Raised In Beautiful Bras Contest: Winners Announced
'Tis the Season for Green Thumbs
*Springfield Moms Celebrates 8 Years Plus HoliDaze Resources
101 Tips for Green Living
11th Annual Harvest Ball
15% off at Roly Poly on Iles
20% Off For Your 4-Legged Friends
2010 Summer Camp Directory: Updated Weekly – Check It Out!
2011 Fall Family Fun Guide With Links Coming Your Way!
2012 Readers' Choice Awards: Favorite for Local Blog! Thank You Readers
2013 Summer Camp Directory and Activity Guide Updated!
4th Annual Beautiful Bras Fundraiser for Breast Cancer Awareness
A "Back to School Routine" Saves the Day!
A "Win-Win" Summer Proposition
A Best Kept Springfield Secret: Illinois State Military Museum
A Few of Our Favorite Parks
A Homemade Mother's Day Project – Easy, Fun and Practical
A Hug to Remember
A Lesson in Letting Go
A Split Second, A Saving Grace
A Walk in My Shoes
Aaaack! It's An Avalanche of Piles!
Abe's Army Wants YOU!
ACE B.Y.O.B (Bag) Sale 20% off!
Actions Go Well Beyond Words
All-Star Game Tonight at Robin Roberts Stadium
American Girl Fashion Show THIS weekend!
American Red Cross Youth Writing Contest Deadline Feb. 26
And She Waits…
Ann Does It Again!
Are You Powerless to Holiday Pounds? No! Joe Thiel Weighs In
Art Fair a Great Tradition!
ArtsInk! Exhibit Debuts at Children's Discovery Museum
Ask Your Insurance Agent: Look at IRAs For 2013
Attitude of Gratitude
Awkward Family Photos
B Strong and Find the Helpers
Baby and Toddler Meal-Time: Tips for Clean-up!
Baby's Got a New Pair of Shoes
Back to School Recipe Contest
Bad Day: A 7 Year-old's Perspective
Baked Pumpkin Oatmeal: Delicious Plus Gluten Free!
Balancing Act Once Kids Return to School
Be Yourself
Beauty & the Beast Adds One More Show
Best in Show 2009!
Birthday Freebies for Grown-ups and Kids
Birthday Parties Now Available At Kerasotes YMCA
Blessed By Brenna
Blessed by Brenna, What a Difference a Year Makes
Blueberry Pie Recipe Contest
Book the Babysitter! Dream Builders Ball
Book the Babysitter! Attend the Dream Builders Ball April 26th
Books and Dogs! Woof's the Connection?
Bottling the Enthusiasm of Kids
Boxes Provide Hours of Free Play
Bras + Breast Cancer Awareness=Beautiful!
Butterflies Galore On a Get-Away Weekend to St. Louis
Buy a Ticket, Buy a Book
Cake Wrecks
Calling All Crafters: Holiday Workshops Coming Up Soon!
Calling all Creative Costumers!
Candy Corn Fever
Candy for the Troops!
Cardinal Caravan Ticket Give-Away!
Carillon Festival This Week
Carnival of Animals Dance Performance
Celebrate Life
Central Illinois Foodbank Expanding!
Check Out Our New Radio Ads With Reader Testimonials
Child Abuse Prevention Month: A Sweet Treat for a Cause
Child Safety & Car Seat Check
Child Safety Opportunity This Weekend
Chocolate Fix All The Way From Lake Tahoe
Cirque du Soleil Quidam A Show to Remember!
Come Celebrate Arts Week at the YMCA! Free Activities October 4 – 10th
Come Out Tonight and Celebrate the Opening of Erin's Pavilion at Southwind Park
Community Corner: Get Rid of Your Electronic Waste and Help Others at the Same Time!
Congratulations to One of Our Springfield Moms Authors!
Connecting with Local Families
Creativity Rules Again; Halloween Photo Gallery Is Posted
Dad's Eye View with John Stearns: What Every Kid Should Know How To Do
Dad's Eye View: A Vote For Train Travel This Summer
Dawn…#1 SPMOM Tribute!
Day and Evening Fun to Support the Family Service Center
Day Trip to Petersburg This Fall: Events and Cool Places to Stop
Day Trips to Amuse and Amaze Your Family
Delectable Pumpkin Crunch Cake Recipe: What's Your Holiday Favorite?
Delicious, Healthy and Easy Salmon Recipe To Try This Week!
Dental Visits Made Easy…
Do as I say … Not as I …
Dog Days Gone Hi-Tech
Don't Miss "Art@Play" Tomorrow at Illinois State Museum
Don't Miss the Father Daughter Dance: Tickets Still Available
Donate Blood on Friday for the "Day of Giving" With WDBR
Donate Food With Your Outgoing Mail on May 9th for "Stamp Out Hunger"
Down on the Farm
Dream Big
Drumroll…Congrats To Our Prize Winners
Early Spring Vegetable Planting
Earth Day Is Here!
Earth: Inspiring and Humbling
Enjoy a FREE Storytelling and Poetry Celebration
Enjoy Life!
Enjoy the Art Fair This Weekend Downtown!
Enjoy These Reader Tips: Sanity Savers, Recipes and Organization Recs
Entice Your Teen to Cook with Teen Authored Cookbook
Epipen Awareness for Schools
Expectations In and Out of the Classroom
Facebook Fans Let's Reach 1000!
Fall Kitchen Favorites Win Jr. Blues Hockey Tickets!
Families Are Forever – Love This Easy and Meaningful Family Tree Project
Families! Gear Up for "Girls On The Run" Spring Event
Family Events THIS Weekend!
Family Fun at the Jazz Festival
Family Getaway at Dr. Jazz: This Weekend Only – Buy One Night, Get One Night Free!
Farmers Market Returns This Week for the Summer!
Father Knows Best
Field Trip Directory: Share Your Favorites
Field Trip Fun!
Finding a Way to Get It All Done
First Day of School Frenzy!
Fitness On the Go: Stay In Shape Over Spring Break
Five Guaranteed Time Savers To Streamline Your Day
For the Love of Laundry – Get Your Kids Started Doing Their Own!
Free Dance Classes for Students in Grades 6 – 10
Free Fortune Teller
Free Junior Golf Clinic, Meet the Pros!
Free Movie "Toy Story 3" July 10 For Any Child With a Disability and Their Family
Free Seminar: Ear, Nose & Throat Issues in Children
Freshen Up the Dress-Up Corner
Friends for all Seasons
Fun Twirly Scarf "How-To" Right Here: Gift Idea
Fun Website with Lyrics To Patriotic Songs for Fourth of July
Funny Kid Comments WIN a T-shirt
Funny Kid Comments: From Our Readers
Funshop Celebrates 35 Years With a Party This Saturday
Gardening Fun With A Little One
Get involved: Area thrift stores need your help!
Get Ready to Sign Up for YMCA Summer Classes
Get Rid of Your Electronic Junk This Weekend at the Fairgrounds
Girls' Night Out at Indigo This Thursday!
Girls, Girls, Girls
Give Me Liberty … and The Freedom Express Coming Next Week
Give Your Kids An Extra Hug Today
Giving Back on Your Special Day
Giving Back…Meet Gabriel
Giving Thanks…Kid Style
Go Out For Dinner Tonight and Help a Cause!
Going Unplugged
Got Sibling Wars? "Pay-it-Forward" Bucket-Filling at Home
Gracefully Aging?!…Vote on MORE!
Gratitude for the Little Things
Guest Blogger Jen Madiar on Love, Marriage and Life
Guest Blogger: Allison Klint Asks "What Will You Pass On?"
Happy Birthday Options for Kids Parties
Happy Birthday, America!
Happy Birthday, Kim!
Happy Family…Happy Life
Happy Father's Day!
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween! Enjoy This Weekend's Festivities
Happy Mother's Day!
Happy New Year!
Happy Weekend!
Harlem Globetrotter Downtown!
Have Snow? Skiing With Young Kids!
Head Lice? Earning our Parenthood Stripes Again
Healing the World with Kindness
Health Fair After Fun Run
Healthy and Local – Mom's Get Together with Sangamon County Farm Moms
Hear Me Roar!
Help Chatham Teens Win at the VMA Awards!
Help Our Sangamon County Area Schools: Vote on November 2nd!
Help Tri-City Win a Library Makeover…Click Today!
Help Us Reach 4,000! Join Our E-Update Family
Helping the Bullies and the Bullied in Your Life
Ho-Ho-Hormones! The Belly Blog by Jen Madiar
Hockey Games 101
Honoring Our Veterans
How Often Do You Bike? Springfield Wants to Know! Take Short Survey Here.
Humbled by Mother Nature, Again
Hunger Relief for Central Illinois – "Feed a Family" Food Drive May 10 – May 18th
I Kicked A Squirrel, and I Liked It…
I Must Be Doing Something Right?!
Illinois State Fair Faves!
Illinois State Museum Family Membership Drive: Cool Perks!
Illinois State Museum Store offers Year-Round Gift Giving
Indian Summer Festival at Lincoln Memorial Garden This Weekend
Indianapolis: A Great Weekend for Families
Inspired by Art
Is There a Fishing Hole in Your Future? Fishing 101
It Takes a Village … to "Raise a Website!"
It's Leap Day! Have Fun and Take Time For You!
It's Library Day at School … Music to My Ears
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year …!
January is National Organizing Month: Who Knew?!
Joy, Memories and Traditions for All
Just the Way You Are…
Keeping Track of the Grandkids
KICKS Family Entertainment Center Contest GiveAway!
Kids Fun Run & Health Fair
Kids in the Kitchen This Saturday
Kim's "Favorites" Highlighted on Fox Illinois
Kindness Matters … Always
Kitchen Sanity Savers!
Labor Day Weekend Fall Activities: Easy Daytrips
LadyBug Flower Pot Project: Great Gift Idea for Moms/Grandmas
Laundry, Laundry Everywhere and Not a Piece to Wear!
Learn to Skate
Learn. Live. Dream. Run. "Girls On the Run" Gears Up for November 10th Event
Learning About the Central Illinois Foodbank
Leaves: Nemesis or Bliss?
Let the Fair Begin: Your Guide to FUN!
Let's Make Dinner…or Six Dinners!
Library Summer Reading Programs
Life Lessons from Elf and Chopra
Like Mother … Like Daughter
Listen to Your Inner Voice
Listen, Learn and VOTE for our CMN Chapter to win $50,000
Little Imaginations: The Beauty of Down Time
Local Dance Studio Wins $1500 for Am Red Cross
Local Kids Needed to Model Clothes!
LOFT Pampers Shoppers for Mom's Day Out
Looking for a Few Good Writers
Love Notes Gone Digital
Make Every Day Count
Make Every Day Count
Make Memories This Summer: Be a Slider Host Family!
Making Every Day A Clean Slate
Martha Stewart I Am Not!
Massage Care Package
Meet and Greet with Fiona from Shrek!
Memorial Day: We Are So Grateful
Memories of Spring Yield a Bounty of Inspiration
Mighty Strong Girls – New Local E-Mag That Encourages and Supports Our Girls
Mini O'Beirne Crisis Nursery: Help Through the Storm
MLK Jr. Timeless and Still Teaching
Mom Agenda Free Shipping
Mom to the Rescue
Mom Wins Worst Cook Nomination
Moms That ROCK!
Monday, Monday…
Money Saving Tips from Local Moms
Mother's Day Gift Giving Ideas
Movers and Shakers Night
Murphy's Law Does It Again
My 7-year-old "Hacker" Steals My iPhone … Priceless
National Tourism Week Is Here: Check Out Your Hometown!
Need a Sponsor for Your Kid's Sports Team?
Neighborhood Garage Sale and Vacation Bible Schools
Never Be Afraid…
New Beginnings…
New Birthday Party Options!
New Library Shows Springfield Area Community Spirit
New Playground in Gerhmann Park
New Storytime Opportunity for Preschoolers at Illinois State Museum
New Summer "Museum Passport Program" for Kids at Illinois State Museum Starts Monday
New Toddler Playdate Opportunity at Midstate Gymnastics Academy
Next Weekend: KidsFest 2012
Nintendo DS is Now Part of the "Family"
Nominate Your Favorite "Woman of Influence"
Nostalgia…Childhood Lives On
Now Open! North Pole Village at Children's Discovery Museum
Old Capitol Farmers' Market Downtown Kicks Off This Wednesday!
Old Shoe…New Home
OMG Another Survey?!
One Man's Trash …
One Mom's Story: Mother of the Year
Organizing 101: The Beauty of Binders
Organizing 101: Tweens and Teens in the Bathroom
Our List of Summer Fun
Our Reader Survey, 5 Minutes, Fab Prizes!
Outdoor Water Park Guide
Pajama Day and Other Incentives
Panda Bears Represent Hope
Parks Directory: Try Somewhere New!
Patience Is a Virtue To Be Taught (and Learned) Again … and Again
Peace, Love and Happiness
Peace, Love, Mom
Perfect Mom? A Myth!
Perfect Weather for Family Night at the Ballpark This Weekend
Photo Shoot to Benefit APL
Photos from Kids in the Kitchen
Photos from Safe Family Saturday
Pin and Win!
Pizza and Pampering! Enter to Win
Planes, Trains and Automobiles – Travel, Family Style
Please Vote For Springfield Moms on SJR's Readers' Choice Survey
Powerworks Kids Plant Garden, Learn About Eating Healthy
Practical Tips For Re-Using Everyday Items from Real Simple
Quality Time Online
Rad 4 Kids…Support Children's Miracle Network
Rainy Day Idea
Rainy Day Options for This Weekend
Register for Fit by the Footsteps Kid's Walk
Register Now for Kids Fun Run and Women's 2K
Remembering 9-11
Resources You Need, Share and Win!
Rochester "Sparks In the Park" Tonight
Room 41 is FUN!
Round Up Purchases at JCPenney and Help Support the Y
Rubbing Abe's Nose As A Local Tourist
Runners … Take Your Mark!
Sangamon Valley Trail Grand Opening!
Save a Life and Savor a Sweet Treat!
Save June 5th for the "Illinois Walk for Children" AND Carnival!
Savoring the Weekends
Say "Cheese!" We Want Your Favorite Family Photos
Schedule Your Very Own "Do Nothing" Day!
Scheduling the Big Rocks
School Daze Have Begun!
Seamless Socks…Success?
Send a Holiday Card to Service Members Compliments of Xerox
Seniority Rules
Share Your Best Back to School Tips and Win!
Silly Bandz: Cheap, Fun, Trend of the Summer
Snuggling With My Sister
So Long June — Here Comes Summer!
Socialize, Shop and Indulge at LOFT on Sunday
Spend Your Black Friday Cash to Send a Child to Summer Camp!
Spring Fever…Change is Good!
Spring Has Sprung … At Least on Pinterest!
Spring is Here to Stay!?
Springfield Moms Looking for a Summer Intern
Springfield Rewind Calendar a Great Holiday Gift
Springfield Sliders Open Tonight! Affordable Family Fun Plus Fireworks!
SpringfieldMoms.org 'Skillet Sweet Catch' at the Sliders Game
St. Louis Zoo Free Admission
Stay Alert Around the Water This Summer
Stovepipe Sprint & Triathlon Register Now!
Summer Bucket List
Summer Days to Savor!
Summer is Knocking On the Door – Outdoor Water Park Time!
Summer Jobs for Hardworking Teens: Who Has Openings?
Summer Movie Deals
Summer Preview! Camp Directory and Adventure Village Savings
Summer Reading Programs
Support the Central Illinois Food Bank By "Liking" Their Logo on Facebook
Survey to Support Southwind Park
Survive the Heat: Ideas for Inside
Sweet Children's Books: Not Just For Valentine's Day
Sweet Treat BOGO Sale: A SpMoms Exclusive!
Sweetcorn Tradition in Chatham this Weekend!
Swing a Golf Club and Support Camp COCO for Kids with Cancer
Take a Stand (Lemonade, That Is)
Take the Pledge! Screen Free Week: April 30th – May 6th
Take those Spaghetti Shots!
Take Time For "Family Reading Night"
Thank These Women!
Thank You Readers & Sponsors!
Thank You Teachers! Summer is Here
Thank You, Readers! Best Local Blog 4 Years and Running!
The "Baby" of the Family
The "Un-Supervised" Marker
The 60 Minute Scramble
The Backyard Farmers: Gardening With Your Kids Worth the Effort!
The Elvis Imposters Contest!
The Good, The Bad and the Bugs!
The Little Things
The Perfect Morning
The Perfect Mother's Day Gift!
The Simple Joys of a Staycation
The Summer "Bucket List"
The Ten Things You Remember About Your Childhood …
There's No Better Time Than Summer To Visit St. Louis
There's Still Time – Taste of Home Cooking School This Thursday
Those Priceless Moments
Tick Tock…To Do's
Time for Traditions!
Time for You is Life for Someone Else
Time to Reflect Even When the World Keeps Spinning
Time to VOTE! The Big Picture Models
Toilet Training is Not For the Weary!
Tonight! Jonas Brothers/Six Flags GiveAway
Top 5 Surprising Things Poisonous to Young Children: Illinois Poison Center
Top Ten Tips to a Lifetime of Fitness
Toys for Tots & GREEN Toyota
Toys for Tots: Help Fill Those Boxes Around Town!
Tween Girls: Math, Science & Technology Workshop!
Two Big Weekends of Halloween Fun
Two Friends (and their bumpers) Collide
Unconditional Love Defined
Unexpected Events…Miracle Moments
Updated Frequent Buyer Rewards
Updated Kids Eat Free Dining Guide
Vacation Idea: Adventure Science Center for Your Wanna-Be Astronauts
Vacation, All I Ever Wanted…
Visions of the Bus Driver…
Volunteers Needed for Capital City Bicentennial Celebration
Vote Early and Often This Weekend for TAP and Blessed Sacrament
Vote Today for SpringfieldMoms.org!
Wag More, Bark Less
Walk or Laugh for Babies
Watch History Come Alive in Downtown Springfield This Summer
Water Safety For Families: FREE Event This Weekend at Nelson Center
WDBR Cares for Kids Radiothon Going On Now
WDBR Cares for Kids Radiothon is HERE!
We Want Your "Back To School" Pictures!
Webkinz Addiction Hits Our Home
Whack-A-Mole Skills Still Intact!
What Does Love Mean?
What To Do Now? Lots of Ideas on Springfield Moms!
What To Do With All That Candy?! Ideas Here
What's Cookin' This Month?
What's Cooking? Easy Fall Recipes
What's For Dinner This Week? Cookbook Recommendation: "The Food Nanny Rescues Dinner"
What's Your Word for the Year?
Win 4 Meet & Greet Passes to Martina McBride!
Win a Family 4 Pack to Darwin the Dinosaur!
Win a Farmhouse Feast from Bob Evans!
Win John Mayer Tickets at Flea Market 2 Fabulous!
Win Tickets to the Sliders
WSEC Springfield on YouTube
YMCA "Strong Kids" – Help a Kid Today!
You Can Help Our Friends In Haiti Now!
You're Not the Boss of Me! Sibling Rivalry and Life Lessons
Your Childhood Cereal Faves!
Your Favorite Thanksgiving Traditions?
Yummy Fall Recipes and Classroom Party Ideas

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