Two geeky girls’ guide to the first year of motherhood.
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I love challenges, lists, and being cheap so this post from Simply Modern Mom is right up my alley. Tiffany challenges her readers to take 52 dates — one per week — while keeping the costs low.
Inspired by the challenge, I commit to have 52 date nights this year with my husband. Here are our [...]
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If you have been getting a little behind in your Mominatrix-inspired sexual resolution, we totally feel you. This has been hard. We’re not exactly on top of these daily challenges ourselves.
In case reclaiming your mama mojo is not enough motivation for you to stay up past 10pm, we’re going to sweeten the deal for you. [...]
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Our friend and once-rookie mom Kristen Chase, aka The Mominatrix, has challenged moms across the nation to participate in a 30-day program during which we’ll have one new task per day, all aimed to improve your sex life and self confidence.
Tomorrow’s challenge? Wear a thong. And make sure your partner knows it.
I think I can [...]
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… or How to Host a Clothes Swap Party.
It’s almost January, so it’s time to plan another clothing swap! Whitney totally hates this photo series but I love it. To be fair, she was trying on outfits from the “pass-through” pile.
We’ve mentioned this idea here and there, but maybe it’s time to full-on tell you [...]
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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 like [...]
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With the economy totally sucking, we’ve modified our babysitter retainer model slightly and are trying to have a few more date nights at home. If you thought it was totally unrealistic when I told you to put your kids to bed before 7pm and have a date-night, I feel you.
Here are six slightly more inventive [...]
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Call me sentimental, but I am a fan of tiny baby feet on little coasters, mugs, and tiles. When Holden was 6 weeks old, we dragged him to a paint-your-own-pottery place to stamp his tootsies on trivets (the cheapest pottery they sold) and I already felt that I had missed his “newborn foot size.” In [...]
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At the BlogHer conference, I grabbed a great stack of paper with swell ideas for mommy self-care called “Pamper Yourself for Less” created by Kim Danger of mommysavers.com.
One of my favorite ideas is for a girls’ night in called Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. Here are Kim’s tips:
Host a totally gnarly 80s party, starting [...]
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Well before we cared about saving money on babysitters by entertaining at home, Alec and I threw a wine taste-testing party. We did a version of this party in preparation for our wedding; we had a few cheap-o bottles of wine from BevMo and we were trying to assess if any of them were drinkable [...]
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My very good friend, Crystal, lives in Chicago as a writer with her wee little son, Harry.
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 using Crystal’s instructions in poker for their own miseducation.
Here’s what Crystal has to say [...]
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I’m a firm believer that new parents need to figure out a way to get out of the house and have some dates. Best case scenario, that’s only one night a week. More realistically, that’s one night a month. Or never.
So, what about all those other nights? Here are five fun date-night ideas that don’t [...]
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When I’m on schedule with the evening routine, I pick up the kids and hustle them in the door a few minutes before the crazy dinner rush starts. If I succeed, we might have a little playtime before the show starts at 5:30.
Once the show begins, I have 25 minutes to prepare dinner with [...]
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The Rookie Mom's Handbook: 250 Activities to Do with (and Without!) Your Baby
