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We live in the Bay Area and also run 510 Families about current fun stuff to do in the East Bay with kids!

Activity #344: Find your rainy day meccas

November 16, 2010

What do Studio Grow, Sadie Dey’s Cafe, Habitot, and even the Berkeley YMCA have in common? They’re all fighting for my rainy day toddler entertainment dollars. Whitney challenged me to go to them all (not a problem, I was making the rounds anyway) and write up my opinions. Several years later, it has led to [...]

Awesome mom profile: Lisa Truong

September 30, 2010

Lisa has two little boys and left her non-profit job to stay home with them. When she saw an Oprah show about the recession and how hard it was hitting some families, she felt the itch to help. The image of mothers struggling to provide the basic necessities for their babes in arms stuck with [...]

We live in the Bay Area and also run 510 Families about current fun stuff to do in the East Bay with kids!

Activity #40: Park yourself somewhere for PARK(ing) day

September 17, 2010

Today is national PARK(ing) Day, an art-slash-activism event that encourages folks to occupy a public parking space with a DIY park. There are 700 temporary parks across the globe this year. This one was produced by the people who work at method in downtown San Francisco. The idea is that you simply feed the meter [...]

Every little bottom in the Bay Area

July 1, 2010

Huggies has promised to contribute to the diaper problem in a big way. And deliver, they have. In a warehouse in San Francisco yesterday, 200,000 diapers were on hand for distribution for various social service agencies to procure for their clients. Friends pitched in and loaded up cars, trucks and vans to bring the diapers [...]

We live in the Bay Area and also run 510 Families about current fun stuff to do in the East Bay with kids!

Go to the drive-in (movie)

June 14, 2010

Rookie mom, Emily, suggested hitting the drive-in movie as a great baby-on-board date night. The last time I went to a drive-in I was driving cross-country with my pal, Rachel, and we actually watched the movie Twister (in which a drive-in theater is decimated by a tornado). I only wish the drive-ins near Berkeley were [...]

Activity #363: Do Music Together

May 20, 2010

Yes, I’m endorsing a product/service here. No, I am not being paid to do so. It’s called Music Together and two past experieinces made me decide to recommend this activity. Several of my friends had done Music Together for three consecutive “semesters” and then decided to skip a semester. During that period we met at [...]

We live in the Bay Area and also run 510 Families about current fun stuff to do in the East Bay with kids!

5 ways therapy can help new moms

May 14, 2010

This guest post from therapist, mom, and high school friend of mine, Alison Macur, is my happy weekend gift to you. Emphasis on the “happy”. +++ You don’t have to be crazy to go to therapy. In this day and age, the pressures to be perfect, the demands of life, and dealing with multiple relationships [...]

Go beyond prego pizza + meet your baby already

May 5, 2010

In honor of May 5th, I offer you my best tips and experience for trying to induce your full-term baby. If your baby is fully-baked and you want to help nature take its course, there are some home remedies for kicking labor into gear that folks are talking about.* I’m not telling you which of [...]

We live in the Bay Area and also run 510 Families about current fun stuff to do in the East Bay with kids!

The Month in Review: Running, Fundraising, and Mominatrixing

May 4, 2010

I feel like it’s Friday, but the calendar tells me it’s not. We Rookie Moms have had a big month. And I’m talking about April (let’s just pretend I wrote this post on May 1st.) We had three real-life events with our bloggy friends. 1) Heather and her teammates for The Relay ran 200 miles [...]

Help a Mother Out. Please.

April 27, 2010

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you might know that I have been interested in collecting diapers to donate to women who cannot afford them. Last year, I collected more than 2500 diapers and dropped them off at a Women’s Drop-In Center in Berkeley. I was inspired by a group of moms [...]

We live in the Bay Area and also run 510 Families about current fun stuff to do in the East Bay with kids!

Activity #538: Take your toddler for a latte

January 13, 2010

My middle school ex-boyfriend, Neil, is now a rookie dad to a toddler (ain’t facebook great?). He likes to take his son, Graham, out in the Burley trailer for coffee dates. Neil drinks the coffee while Graham sips his leche. Neil reports: Even in the fun Portland winter weather, I like to take Graham out [...]

Activity #218: Wear the baby

January 12, 2010

By the time I took this picture, Julian was to big for this fleece sling, so I was thrilled to wear Heather’s baby Holden in it. If you don’t already have a sling, consider it. Wearing your baby keeps him happy, especially if he’s the type that likes to be held all the time. Instead [...]

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