I have a little secret to share on how to get your toddler who hates his car seat to STOP WHINING and sit quietly for your 20 minute commute to work and back… how to keep his little hands occupied…

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Dear iPhone, where have you been for the last 36 years?  Finally, I can browse the web, listen to podcasts, TEXT with a keypad (I was the world’s slowest texter on my old phone that had no keypad) have access…

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So remember when I told you how Jasper is such a drama queen? And remember how I said that he hates hats so much that I needed to find a Halloween costume that has no hat component?…

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It’s official – I am that crazy photographer lady. The one who pulls up to the teenagers working at the local farm and asks where the pumpkins are.

“The pumpkin patch is that way M’am..”

“Ok, but is that like…

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Two weeks ago we took Jasper to a free preview class at the “Little Gym” (a gymboree type knock off that is twice as expensive and not as much fun.) It was EARLY on a Saturday morning and we got…

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I was updating my ipod with my latest podcasts in preparation for the gym this weekend when I saw it: “Mothers Online“, the newest podcast from New Moms New Babies featuring  - moi!

My heart started…

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No really, literally look at the bright side project today.. it’s featuring a giveaway from Charmed & Dangerous (my little site with my mom) today!

Know what else is cool? The prop room of Brother’s…

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I was hoping to be able to post some pictures and a bit of a recap of the party, but Iwoke up in the middle of the night with a raging case of mastitis. The lack of sleep + stress…

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I never bought a traditional baby book – you know, the ones that have a few blank lines where you put in the date of baby’s first everything?  I had this pie in the sky idea that I would digiscrap…

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I recently read an excellent article by Peggy Ornstein in the NY Times about her search for a Kindergarten for her daughter. It is an eye-opening read that pretty much sums up everything that I think is wrong…

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