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Thanks for the sweet ride, GMC!

August 25, 2010

Now that I’ve been home for 2 weeks, I have finally recovered from my family vacation. Because we live on the West Coast and our families live Out East, every time we cross the Mississippi, it turns into a full-on Family Vacation, capital letters required. This year, we managed to sync up my plans to [...]

BlogHer ’10 Highlights (and lowlights)

August 19, 2010

Now that I’m back home and into my normal groove, reflecting on BlogHer feels surreal. Was I really there? I spent an amazing long weekend feeling totally B-List. And that’s a good thing (I felt neither invisible nor obligated to be the funniest person in the room). I know a solid handful of people, although [...]

Going on a “Vacation”

July 28, 2010

Holy Cow! I’m getting on an airplane tomorrow with my family for a little pre-Blogher “vacation.” I can’t help but put the word Vacation in quotes. I’d use air-quotes if that was available. My extended family has a fabulous lakeside cottage in Upstate New York that is a decent drive from where I grew up [...]

5 things I have learned from Whitney

July 22, 2010

Whitney and I have been friends since 1996 when our then-boyfriends were best friends with each other. We used to share adventures before there were babies on the scene: being short at concerts, snowboarding in the slow lane, dancing (but not late), crafting, clothes-swapping, London, etc. Since Julian is six months older than my rookie [...]

Carnival: gardens and the great outdoors

July 20, 2010

As part of the Healthy Child Blog Carnival, on the theme of Splendor in the Grass, we submitted my post about urban chicken farming. This carnival is part of an ongoing effort by Healthy Child Healthy World to help inspire a movement to protect children from harmful chemicals. The theme of backyards drew a wide [...]

Happy 0-5 to Holden

May 12, 2010

Happy birthday to my five-year old rookie baby. Yes, Holden, you made me a mom, mommy, mama, mother, and even a mommyblogger. You rocked my world and changed my life. But that was then, who are you now? You are a fun-loving, outgoing, social-as-heck biking dude. You love big machines, digging in the sand, watching [...]

Who else likes BABIES?

May 7, 2010

Last month, I was very lucky to go to the BABIES documentary San Francisco premiere. I laughed; I smirked; I squirmed. And I think all parents and parents-to-be would have similar emotional reactions (but probably to different parts). You try to sit still as a naked baby is surrounded by a herd of cattle, I [...]

Eat. Blog. Run. is this weekend!

April 30, 2010

Holy Fearless Friday, Eat. Blog. Run. starts today. I am sitting at the desk of the Country Inns & Suites in Sunnyvale awaiting the rest of my teammates, guzzling water and blogging. Several months ago — when May seemed like a really long time away — Marie from Make And Takes invited me to join [...]

iPad app for kids: SUPER WHY!

April 11, 2010

On the day before I knew that my husband was going to surprise our family with an iPad, I was invited to test out a new iPad app by the SUPER WHY folks from PBS. Because I (wrongfully) assumed it would also work on the iPhone, I agreed to take it for a spin. Lucky [...]

Stop lugging carseats on airplanes

April 9, 2010

Traveling with toddlers is not easy under the best of circumstances. If you’re really lucky, the flight is smooth, you packed enough snacks, the in-flight movie doesn’t include scary stuff, and you’ve scored a SkyMall catalog perfect for I Spy. After Holden turned about 8 months old, he was so darn squirmy that we vowed [...]

Reader Did-Do: Monthly chair photos

April 8, 2010

A local-to-us rookie mom, Jen, told us “The monthly shot (now on 2nd kid, too) with the same toy in the same chair is still going strong at now 33 months. (No, we haven’t figured out when we’ll stop. Kindergarten? When she rolls her eyes & flips us off every month?)” I asked her to [...]

Cheat sheet of non-toxic tips and eco-wisdom

March 29, 2010

I asked Janelle Sorensen, the Senior Editor and Outreach Director for Healthy Child Healthy World, to help me create a round-up of great green parent bloggers and she vastly exceeded my expectations. Janelle lives in the mountains of Arizona with her husband, daughters, and puppy. Below, she shares her story for getting involved in non-toxic [...]

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