I read this article last night and thought many mommas would find it interesting... "The Six Best Careers for Moms." My career has been an important part of my life since graduating college. I've worked to add a variety of skills to my services. I've proven that I am a creative, reliable and passionate professional.

However... now that I've decided I'm ready to be a mom... I really really want to work from home. As a freelancer I do get to work quite a bit from home, but some clients require that I work from their offices on certain projects.

I found the six recommended careers from Caroline's, Divine Caroline blog really interesting.

How about you ladies out there in the blogosphere. Are you work at home moms?

I wasn't going to write about little Caylee Anthony (the missing 2-year-old from Florida) because I wanted to keep my blog light and happy... but I just can't help it. Everyday the media continues to dig deeper and deeper into the case of the missing toddler and everyday my heart brakes a little more for this missing child.

[The picture to the right is of Caylee Anthony. She has been missing since early summer. If you have seen Caylee please call authorities immediately]

The entire story seems so "shady"... someone knows where that little baby is and I can't help but think the outcome will not be good. Wanting a baby so badly I can't seem to wrap my head around how a mother could not seem to want hers. The moms over at MomLogic questioned their readers today, "Is Casey Anthony a Criminal Mom?" While it's not my place to sit in judgment of this mother... it is so hard to not jump to the conclusion that she is in fact a criminal mom and worse a mom that didn't care enough for her daughter to take care of her properly, didn't care enough to protect her.

So now with the rest of the country I sit and wait and wonder, where is Caylee? Will she ever come home? Only God knows and unlike her own mother, God will never abandon little Caylee. Wherever she is, she is not alone.

Join me in saying a prayer for her and all of the other missing children.

~Craving Baby

I just read a quick little piece in a copy of American Baby Magazine and according to a recent study conducted by Yale University scientists... pregnant women should be eating chocolate regularly. Women that had at minimum five servings of chocolate per week were 40& less likely to develop preeclampsia!

Of course it's also important that regular exercise accompany a regular chocolate regiment.

I'll be sure to keep chocolate (especially dark chocolate) on my list of foods when I'm preggers.

What about you... did you eat chocolate regularly during pregnancy?

MommyMatter is a cool new website that's all about what matters to moms! I am pleased and excited to announce that I'll be contributing to their site. I'll be posting their at least several times per month (my personal goal is a weekly weekend post). I just finished writing my first piece for them and will be sure to let you know when it posts to their site. The title of my first MommyMatter piece? Raising "Good Citizens of the World".

In the meantime, cruise on over to MommyMatter to check out what they've got goin' on. Of course you can always get to MommyMatter by stopping here at CravingBaby and clicking on their ad on the left side of your screen or the link on the right side under "Great Web Sites".

I have some friends whose children call their grandmothers things other than "grandma". One goes by "gammy", one by "nana" and another by "g-ma." I never did this with my grandmother, she was always just "grandma". Apparently I am behind the times.

An article from MomLogic today discusses whether or not it's okay for your kids to call you something other than mom? If they don't call you mom... what will they call you? I'm sure by the time their teenagers my kids may want to call me all the names in the book but while they're little, my children (when I'm blessed with them) will call me "mom".

How bout you?

Do your kids call you anything other than "mom"?

If you and your DH are in the baby game and trying to conceive check out this article from The Cradle. Written by Ann Douglas, author of The Mother of All books, this article, Countdown to Conception is a great source of info for couples that are looking to start their family.