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Photographer, blogger

Jennifer McKinney is a Twin Cities blogger and photographer who documents her family's life in photographs and stories. Her popular blog, My Charming Kids, is read by over 100,000 readers a day. McKinney has four children, the youngest of which, Stellan, fights a heart ailment called Supraventricular Tachycardia. Her interests include marriage, parenting, nutrition, writing, art, faith and photography.

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Fluoride is my aphrodisiac

Going to the dentist makes me want to get pregnant. Read on to find out why. More…

Do the Duggars have too many children?

With the announcement of their pregnancy with a 19th child, the Duggars are at the center of a sometimes heated debate. Do they indeed have too many children? Here is what I think. More…

New parenthood, bed wetting and endless crying

Ah, new parenthood. Caring for my first newborn was so challenging, what with the bed wetting and endless crying. And that was just me! My precious babe wet the bed and cried endlessly as well! This is my short tale of surviving newbornhood, if that is indeed a word. More…

Such is motherhood.

Voice recognition was created to make lives easier. But sometimes, for busy mothers like me, it makes our lives more difficult. Often we set out to accomplish a whole lot each day, but end up simply mothering our children. But after all, shouldn't that be enough, anyway? More…

Raising four children under four...and living to blog about it.

What started as my meager family blog about the day to day happenings of our four young children, one of whom has a heart condition, has transformed into the third most widely read female-written blog on the internet. Our story follows. More…

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