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Month 9

5 great scavenger hunts to get you + your baby out of the house

August 12, 2009

If you’re running out of ideas and mommy yoga just isn’t doing it for you today, might I suggest a few great scavenger hunts to shake things up? Grab a diaper (and all that other stuff) and hit the road. Go on an alphabet walk: Take a walk with your baby and your camera. Shoot [...]

5 Super easy outings to do with your baby

July 14, 2009

Sometimes you just gotta get out of the house. We say it all the time. You might not really want to, but if its noon and you haven’t showered yet or if it’s 4pm and you’ve been rattling around your cage all day, IT IS TIME. I’m getting stir crazy on your behalf. Armed with [...]

Activity #380: Give advice to people who want it

June 1, 2009

We have to give props to rookie parents Rachel and Clay who came up with Minti.com, a web site that enables the sharing of advice from parents to other parents. You can post advice based on your experience, read advice from other parents, and answer the requests for advice that are posted here. Plus, you [...]

Take your baby to a grown-up restaurant

May 14, 2009

Whitney and I both love Picante. But sometimes you want to go to a place that feels a little more grown-up. There are fancy restaurants with linen tablecloths and eerie, romantic silence and there are groovy, funky, cool restaurants that make you feel like an adult again while being a sensory treat for your older [...]

Activity #453: Send a message via diapers

March 6, 2009

If you are a new parent and don’t know about parenthacks.com, get on over there. It offers tons of suggestions from readers with kids of all ages. When I was selecting some posts from ParentHacks to highlight over on SafetyAtHome, I remembered this clever one:Pass secret messages on diapers. The parent/hacker wrote: The other day [...]

Activity #5: Banish your mommy guilt

March 3, 2009

My caring husband bought me the book Mommy Guilt as a not-so-subtle hint for me to lighten up and have more fun. The subtitle, Learn to worry less, focus on what matters most, and raise happier kids, was appealing enough… and my commute and daily visit to the pumping room gave me ample time to [...]

Activity #146: Create a family photo wall

November 13, 2008

Real grown-ups probably have one of these in their house already. I am just getting started. I started working on my picture wall to help Julian learn his grandparents’ faces. Now I use it to show Scarlett who they are before they come. I suggest assigning this task to family members, both to get it [...]

Activity #76: Blow bubbles

October 13, 2008

Let’s stay realistic. Bubble blowing is not something that you can build your whole day around, so it’s the type of thing I usually refrain from posting here. But, watching your baby react to bubbles IS pretty fun. So take them with you in your diaper bag and pull them out whenever you need a [...]

Activity #221: Run Mommy run

April 1, 2008

Before my pregnancy, I trained for triathlons with the half-asses, a subset of Team Bad Ass. Now, I really miss having a training buddy and I use that as my main excuse to not exercise. If you like to run or walk with a partner (and actually want to get back out there), See Mommy [...]

Activity #483: Keep a list of things you swore you’d never do as a parent

December 7, 2007

Nataly, the CEO and co-founder of Workitmom.com, an online community for working moms, sent me this one. Oh, the big plans many of us make before having kids: I’m going to make my own baby food. I’m never letting my child sleep in a swing or drive her around in a car to make her [...]

Activity #237: Eat your own dog food

May 7, 2007

For those of you not in the business world, this expression, “Eat your own dogfood” means that you should be willing to use the product you’re selling. You know, like “I’m not just the President of the Hair Club for Men… I’m also a member.” Or in this case: Take your own advice. Heather and [...]

Activity #452: Complete the sentence, “Real moms…”

March 21, 2007

Over at MuchMoreThanAMom.com, Rylan’s mommy challenges us to finish this sentence and share with each other. I’ll go first, based on an experience from last week: Real moms wish their kid wasn’t sick so that they could go to daycare. Real moms fear they can’t handle ten hours at home with their sick kid.

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