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Some activities are just for you because mama you should be having fun with and WITHOUT your baby.

5 ways to have fun with your friends without a babysitter

February 19, 2013

I love to spend a long evening out with my friends eating off of each other’s plates and splitting three desserts (unless there are more than two of us, in which case, I expect more desserts). If leisurely nights away from home have become a ridiculous fantasy like jetting off to Paris for a pedicure, [...]

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Activity #575: Make a taggie monster

February 7, 2013

How cute is this DIY softie? Our new bloggy and RL (that’s, real life people!) friend Wendy made this adorable “taggie monster” for her baby son, Auggie, and it was too flipping adorable not to share. Apparently the design came to her in a dream. Cool. Milo is in a very loving phase right now [...]

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Some activities are just for you because mama you should be having fun with and WITHOUT your baby.

I love coats and I want you to love them, too

January 17, 2013

Something bums me out about assembling a cute outfit and then putting a dreary jacket over it. Over the past few years I’ve become a huge collector of coats, fancy sweatshirts, and jackets, and I want to share my enthusiasm for this fashion investment. The right coat is a wonderful thing to turn to before [...]

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Tech Tuesday: How I use Pinterest to solve my fashion angst

January 15, 2013

If my closet could magically fill itself with well-fitted (pressed!) clothes that suited my shape and whims without me ever having to set foot into an apparel store, I would be a very happy girl. I hate shopping; I like having cute stuff but not all the picking and sore feet that goes along with [...]

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Some activities are just for you because mama you should be having fun with and WITHOUT your baby.

New Year’s Eve – on the cheap and easy

December 26, 2012

New Year’s Eve can become like Prom Night if you let it: fraught with expectation and pressure. But instead of dropping an extra $150 on a limo ride through the McDonald’s drive-thru, you’re spending an extra $150 on a babysitter. Ugh. Whitney and I have had a long-standing date on New Year’s Eve and we [...]

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Step away from the computer, lady

November 15, 2012

Seriously. Is someone you love napping right now? If you click on one more link, you’re just depriving yourself from an opportunity to lay down. I do this to myself every day. I’m so so so tired and then the kid’s asleep and I’m clicking away. The few times I’ve been disciplined, it’s been so [...]

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Some activities are just for you because mama you should be having fun with and WITHOUT your baby.

5 strategies to put HAPPY in your holidays

November 14, 2012

Reposted from the wayback machine because it’s that time of year! Generally speaking, my extended family on my husband’s side (AKA in-laws) are a wonderful bunch of people that we don’t see nearly enough. Because we live clear across the country, we’ve grown accustomed to our own way of doing things so getting together involves [...]

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What is a parent coach good for?

October 24, 2012

When I read an email from Kassandra, a mom in rural Missouri who does parent coaching via Skype, I challenged her to explain to me what a parenting coach could provide that we don’t get already from our friends or other trusted sources.  I thought she did a darn good job of answering, so I [...]

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Some activities are just for you because mama you should be having fun with and WITHOUT your baby.

Throw a debate-watching party

October 18, 2012

My fellow Americans, history is upon us. It’s an election year. If you have a newborn in the house, it can be like living under a rock for several months. But you can still be in on the fun. I suggest you throw a debate-watching party to reconnect with your childfree friends. You supply the [...]

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Activity #283: Bake a cookie (or three)

October 15, 2012

When Whitney was a brand-new-rookie-mom, I brought over a half-cooked lasagne and a carton of cookie dough balls from a specialty deli. I thought I was pretty darn smart. Unlike most other things I thought I knew before having a baby of my own, I was right about the cookies! You can bake them one [...]

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Some activities are just for you because mama you should be having fun with and WITHOUT your baby.

Activity #243: Start a ladies poker club

October 9, 2012

My very good friend, Crystal, lives in Chicago as a writer with her two sons, Harry and Max. She wrote about starting a Ladies Poker Club when Harry was an infant. Harry is a mere one day younger than Milo and sadly they’ve never met in person. We fully expect that one day they’ll be [...]

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Not all treats are made of chocolate

October 2, 2012

A couple years ago, we had a friend’s preschool-age son over for dinner. The other child asked, “Do you have any treats?” and Milo responded, “Having you here is a treat for us.” Poor kid just wanted dessert. Though I love my mid-afternoon bite(s) of dark chocolate, I am thinking of non-food treats that are [...]

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