After many sessions of Music Together, this is my unpaid love letter to the class that fills the void in my afternoon and my home with music!
Join a museum
Like they used to say on TV, membership has it’s privileges. Both of the Bay Area children’s museums that I have been to are part of a consortium of Children’s Museums that have reciprocal memberships. This means that if you get a one-year membership at Habitot in Berkeley, for example, you can go to the […]
Park yourself somewhere for PARK(ing) day
Next Friday, September 20 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 about 1000 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 […]
6 cute umbrellas for toddlers or preschoolers
An umbrella is a terrific gift for a preschooler. My toddler loves to hold her own kid-sized umbrella, and it gives us something to do on a rainy day – go outside and stand there with an umbrella over our heads. I saw this rainbow umbrella for kids in a Museum catalog and thought it […]
Parade about town with pride
You city mamas probably already know that it’s Pride Weekend season. That is Gay Pride for those who are not familiar with this most fabulous event. The family-friendly folks who march with their kids in San Francisco have invited us (anyone who wants) to join them, and I’m thinking it sounds like a good idea […]
Wake up and go to IKEA
Before I let Andrea tell you how much she liked taking her 18-month old twins to IKEA, I want to mention her new business, little uni. She is selling handmade baby clothes that are simple and sweet, with modern appliques. Her babies Mira and Will are modeling for us in these pictures. Andrea lives in […]
Spend a week in Issaquah, WA
Shelly, the founder of My Spoiled Rotten Baby, wrote to me with her story, and it seemed appropriate for the Rookie Moms audience. After delivering her son via cesarean birth, she decided that moms needed a little more support than she received during her birth experience. She started teaching childbirth education at a prestigious hospital […]
Spend a week in Seattle
Jacqui publishes Red Tricycle, a newsletter and website dedicated to finding the cool stuff for kid-focused people in Seattle. She shares with us some of her favorite activities for moms and new babies around the city as inspired by her own son, James Hudson: Day One: Downtown You can’t come to Seattle to without checking […]