From the hopeful, wide-eyed anticipation of a first heartbeat to watching your baby grow month-after-month, early motherhood is a life-alternating transformation—and it deserves to be celebrated. Yet, during these early years, mothers are often overlooked during gift-giving occasions, at a time when they could use a little TLC.
Whether you're shopping for your bestie who's expecting or your sister who just welcomed their tiny human, I've curated a selection of gifts that are sure to bring smiles and make life a little easier for these incredible women.
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Bobby Orr (Ice Hockey Legend)
Full Name: Robert Gordon Orr
Profession: Ice Hockey Legend
Biography: Played in the NHL for 10 seasons with the Boston Bruins. Widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest hockey players of all time. As a defenceman, he used his ice skating speed and scoring and play-making abilities to revolutionize the position. Remains the only defenceman to have won the league scoring title with two Art Ross Trophies and holds the record for most points and assists in a single season by a defenceman.
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Burger King Changes Name to Pancake King to Shade IHOb
June 12, 2018 1:05 PM EDT
Following IHOP’s big reveal that it was changing it’s name- for now anyway – to IHOb to promote the debut of its new burgers, fellow restaurants like Wendy’s and Denny’s took to social media on Monday to mock the rebrand. Now, Burger King has also joined in on the viral pettiness.
Taking a shot at IHOP’s transition from a pancake to burger focus, the fast food joint changed its name to Pancake King on both Twitter and Facebook.
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Business & Finance: Lady from Atlas
Long before Floyd Bostwick Odlum started to collect broken-down investment trusts for Atlas Corp., he traveled all over the world using his absolute power-of-attorney to buy hundreds of millions of dollars of utility properties for Electric Bond & Share. Before that he was a $75-per-month law clerk in Salt Lake City. And shortly before that the slight, sandy-haired son of a Methodist minister was married to Hortense (“Tenney”) Mc-Quarrie, daughter of a Mormon elder.
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Chlo Zhao Directing Adaptation of Shakespeare-Era Novel Hamnet for Amblin Partners
Oscar-winning filmmaker Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) will direct an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s acclaimed Shakespeare-era novel “Hamnet” for Amblin Partners. Zhao is writing the screenplay with O’Farrell. Amblin Partners, Hera Pictures, Neal Street Productions and Book of Shadows are all backing the project.
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Coco Chanel's Fascination With Fashion Started Early in Life
Later in life Coco never used the word “orphanage.” Instead, she said her father took her to stay with unmarried “aunts” who always dressed in gray and black. “My aunts were good people, but absolutely without tenderness,” she would say. “I was not loved in their house.” She told the girls at the orphanage that her father had gone to America to seek his fortune and would come to get her as soon as he was rich.
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Demi Lovato (Actress and Singer-Songwriter)
Full Name: Demetria Lovato
Profession: Actress and Singer-Songwriter
Biography: Demi Lovato was a child actor starting out in the children's show "Barney & Friends" alongside Selena Gomez. In 2007 Lovato starting working for the Disney Channel and starred in the popular "Camp Rock" films with the Jonas Brothers. She also recorded songs for the movie soundtrack.
In 2009 Lovato was given her own show on the Disney Channel "Sonny with a Chance"
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Este Lauder (Cosmetics Entrepreneur) - On This Day
Full Name: Josephine Esther Mentzer
Profession: Cosmetics Entrepreneur
Biography: Estée Lauder's parents were Hungarian immigrants who had very little money. Lauder started working at her uncle's beauty salon when she was just a teenager. She soon began to develop her own line of products.
In 1946, Lauder and her husband Joseph Lauder founded Estée Lauder Companies. The company originally sold only four products: skin care cream, cleanser, toner, and moisturizer.
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Exercise: Am I Gaining Muscle Weight or Fat From My Workout?
Apart from an iced latte here and a skipped workout there, you’ve been good about sticking to your new health regimen. So it’s frustrating to step on the scale and see your weight has hardly budged. Or worse, you’ve put on a few pounds.
But wait, doesn’t muscle weigh more than fat? You have added pushups to your workouts…
Unfortunately, the odds that you’ve added even a small amount of muscle, let alone a few pounds of the stuff, is highly unlikely, says Dr.
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Find out what these two popular denominations have in common
Once upon a time, only the Roman Catholic church existed. Then there was a split due to a dispute between Englands King Henry VIII and the popes over the validity of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. This separation led to the birth of the Anglican communion. As you can imagine, these two religious denominations share some similarities. Heres what these two popular churches share in common:
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