Two geeky girls’ guide to the first year of motherhood.
From the category archives:
I was sent an advance copy of Nurtureshock: New Thinking About Children in the fall because once upon a time I wrote a tiny blog post about “praising the verb and not the noun” when talking to children.
I let it sit on my shelf with the many other books I don’t have time for.
Coincidentally, my [...]
{ 14 comments }
About two months ago, I accepted an offer from BlogHer to test drive a Lincoln MKT. The offer to test drive a car did not interest me at first, as I only drive a few miles each day, but when my husband pointed out that we might be able to time the car [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Whitney first introduced me to speesees organic baby clothes around the time our second babies were born. She showed me a pair of matching bright pink tee-shirts with a starburst in the middle for toddler Julian and baby-to-be Scarlett.
Once Julian outgrew it, Milo was lucky to inherit it. Soft, well-made, organic, and bright pink… what’s [...]
{ 2 comments }
When I first saw Thomas Claire featured on Cool Mom Picks, it seemed the perfect combination of a mom-friendly crafty activity that you could do with (or without!) kids.
But was it too good to be true? I inquired and the nice folks sent me a kit to test out.
Classy all the way. The packaging [...]
{ 0 comments }
Plan Toys are exactly the toys I want my kids to like. They are attractively designed, eco-friendly wooden toys without a licensed character in sight. I believe they allow for kid-powered creativity and open-ended preschooler inventiveness like pretending the little crazy-haired dude is a princess who wishes she were an owl.
When we received the Activity [...]
{ 1 comment }
This is a compensated review from BlogHer and LEGO® DUPLO®
My daughter is abusing the word “because”. She has become a master of the run-on sentence, linking together every thought that comes into her brain, often in a circular logic fashion, with the word “because”.
She is two years old.
Mommy, I was crying because I was [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Irony alert: I don’t let my kids play video games and I limit their TV screen time, but I’m usually willing to hand over my iPhone to pass the time.
I realized that I was a huge hypocrite on a recent flight from San Francisco to Cleveland when we let Holden (now 4) watch the entire [...]
{ 7 comments }
Getting to 50/50 is very well-researched and chock full of data. In fact, if you were committed to the SAHM-life before reading it, beware, this book might have you throwing out your diaper bag for a laptop bag.
I originally posed the question, “are you already at 50/50?” a few weeks ago. Here’s my nitty gritty [...]
{ 0 comments }
Let me start out by saying in no uncertain terms that I love the Toy Story movies!! Just so we’re clear.
I enjoyed them in the theater back in the day. And I recently screened a DVD at home for my two- and four-year old boys with great success for family movie night. My big boy [...]
{ 6 comments }
Two of the coolest chicks I met at BlogHer this year were Erin and Rachael from TodaysMama.com. So when Rachael asked if I would take a look at some new baby and mama products from Maclaren, I just wanted to say yes, simply because I like Rachael. Also, I have had the same Maclaren [...]
{ 3 comments }
I’m not so much a martini mom, but the subtitle of this book should give you a pretty good idea why I thought I’d like it: “100 ways to find 10 blissful minutes for yourself” — that’s pretty fantastic! And pretty close to our own philosophy of helping rookie moms survive the first year(s) of [...]
{ 1 comment }
When I saw one of the youtube ads for this indestructible Olympus camera a few months ago I thought, “yeah right” and by that I mean “no flipping way.”
This is the ad I saw:
Maybe Olympus could get adorable preschool-like actors to put the camera through its paces on a gentle rubberized-mat surface, but could [...]
{ 1 comment }
The Rookie Mom's Handbook: 250 Activities to Do with (and Without!) Your Baby
