Chaunie Brusie

Mom | Writer | Nurse

Unplanned Pregnancy

I’m 28 With Four Kids-So What?

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Over on Babble this week, I shared my thoughts on being a young mom of four kids-and how for me, young motherhood has not meant my life has been a failure, or even more of a struggle.  Maybe I’m the exception, but I doubt it. The true “success” of motherhood-at any age-means believing in yourself,…

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Your Lines: Melissa Cohen

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Melissa is one of my favorite bloggers. Although we’ve never met “IRL,” I feel like we’ve somehow known each other forever. Plus, I feel a special pride in watching Melissa’s writing career grow and blossom, because she was a student in my first online freelance writing class. (*puffs chest with pride*) Be sure to stop…

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A Young Mom Q&A and A Book Giveaway!

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Sometimes, I look back on how far I’ve come from this blog’s beginning and I am so, so incredibly grateful. I love where I am in this journey to becoming a writer and I pray every day that this dream doesn’t disappear on me, because I truly love what I do. And of course, as…

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Win a Free Copy of Tiny Blue Lines From The Grace Bond

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Want to know what my favorite part about writing my book has been? Hearing the reactions of real-life young moms who have been gracious enough to read and review it. Because it’s one thing to write the book myself and think it’s helpful and practical advice, but it’s another thing completely to hear that other…

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The Tiny Blue Lines Book Trailer!

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I’m so excited to share the official book trailer for Tiny Blue Lines with you all! My talented videographer brother whipped this up for me and invited me over to watch it without any warning whatsoever. Which, if you know what an emotional pregnant woman I am, you would recognize was a very cruel move…

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The Original Young Mom

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The other day, I did a radio interview for a Catholic station about my book. (Also, in a related news, talking on the phone alone in my house hoping my cell phone doesn’t give out while simultaneously hoping I don’t sound like a man makes me very nervous…) He fired question after question at me…

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An Unplanned Pregnancy Is Not An Unwanted Child

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So yesterday was not my best work.  Yesterday’s highlight’s included cutting my children’s curling toenails (so gross and also, how do they grow so fast?) and if you follow me on Facebook, you may have seen that I somehow managed to kill my kids’ day-old goldfish literally right in front of them. My girls looked…

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7 Myths About Unplanned Pregnancy

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Call me crazy, but I think that there may be a few misconceptions (ha!) about unplanned pregnancy floating around out there.  Perhaps maybe something along the lines of all we’re all poor, uneducated mothers popping out as many kids as we possibly can to milk the system? Yeah. About that. Today, I’m setting out to…

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