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Fun with Photo Printers
I know we live in a digital age, but I still love to hold a photo in my hands. It feels more personal. More meaningful. Have you noticed this? When you bother to print out a photo, it's that one shot you love enough to frame, rescued from a sea of Instagrams, most...
What Is It With Mothers, Daughters & Hair?
My 2-year-old daughter Viv has the most beautiful hair. Too bad she won’t let me touch it. A hairbrush might as well be a machete by the way she runs screaming: “No mommy! Not my hair!” When Viv first resisted my efforts to comb out her easily tangled mop, I thought...
One Way I’m Glad My Daughter’s Not Like Me
When I was about six, our neighbors on the cul-de-sac invited my family over for ice cream. The neighbors, while lovely, were totally overwhelming to me – six boisterous kids of all ages, mostly boys. My goal at their house was to be invisible, so I copped a squat...
4 Ways To Kill Time At The Playground
Here's my first post for parenting site Mom.me (And clearly I was feeling snarky.) Do a girl a favor and "like" it on Facebook so they think I'm awesome? Hey you, with your face buried in your smart phone, getting carpel tunnel from texting, totally oblivious to your...
New York Kicked My Parenting Ass
Hey there, did you miss me? We just got back from summer vacation - aka Viv's east coast relatives tour: three grandmas, two grandpas, one great aunt, two good aunts, two honorary aunts, two uncles, a newborn cousin and a partridge in a pear tree. It was the new baby...
In Between Days: Life With a 2 1/2 Year Old
Between baby and preschooler... Between diapers and potty... Between crib and big girl bed... Between high chair and table... Between letting me dress her and dressing herself... Between "reading" and reading... Between my arms for as long as she’ll let...
Hey Good Looking, I’m Slow Cooking
Ever since I settled down and got domestic, I've wanted a slow cooker, but I was too overwhelmed by options to buy one. (I once carried a crock pot around Bed Bath & Beyond for a half hour before ditching it at the register. Strength training AND cardio.) So when...
New Moms Don’t Make Bucket Lists
The Huffington Post invited me to write an OpEd piece about Candy Chang's TED Talk for a series they're doing. This sounded like a cool challenge until I realized her talk was about LIFE and DEATH. How was I supposed to make that funny? Here's what happened......
I Just Graduated From Mommy & Me – Now What?
Ever since Viv was three months old, we’ve been enrolled in a Mommy & Me class. Are Parent/Baby classes “a thing” where you live? Here in Southern California, these groups are super popular among new moms. I think it’s because so many of us are transplants, far...