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I loved that Joanne reminded us that too often there are tons of pictures of baby with friends and family, but only a few with Mom and baby because we’re so often behind the camera. So take Joanne’s advice: Armed with your digital camera, make friends with the auto-timer function. Take some candid shots of [...]

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DIY mamas-to-be and wannabes: this is one easy project that will give you bang for your $5. When shopping for receiving blankets, it seems that there are 3 kinds of totally WRONG kinds of blankets: cute but stretchy, too small, or not square. Uggh! For a true Harvey-Karp-style swaddle, you need a biggish piece of flannel [...]

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DIY mamas-to-be and wannabes: this is one easy project that will give you bang for your $5. When shopping for receiving blankets, it seems that there are 3 kinds of totally WRONG kinds of blankets: cute but stretchy, too small, or not square. Uggh! For a true Harvey-Karp-style swaddle, you need a biggish piece of flannel [...]

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First off, this is not the place to find out about counting pounds or calories… so, I can recommend the following tasty ways to get your calcium: mint chocolate chip ice cream in front of the TV cheese - fancy with red wine or the stick variety in the middle of the night a tall glass of milk [...]

This post is from from my other blog here

First off, this is not the place to find out about counting pounds or calories… so, I can recommend the following tasty ways to get your calcium: mint chocolate chip ice cream in front of the TV cheese - fancy with red wine or the stick variety in the middle of the night a tall glass of milk [...]

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Meagan, who is a rookie mom to Soren, wrote to us with this suggestion for how to be better about connecting with your friends. I love that is in the true spirit of a geeky girl’s approach to motherhood: As my very understanding friends can attest, I have never been good at keeping in [...]

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Meagan, who is a rookie mom to Soren, wrote to us with this suggestion for how to be better about connecting with your friends. I love that is in the true spirit of a geeky girl’s approach to motherhood: As my very understanding friends can attest, I have never been good at keeping in [...]

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Siblings Without Rivalry, 1-2-3 Magic, Babyproofing Your Marriage, 101 Ways to Help Your Daughter Love Her Body. This is a short list of parenting books I haven’t read but sound valuable. Will I ever read them? Not sure. A book… you know, it just has so many… pages. Someone figured me out [...]

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Siblings Without Rivalry, 1-2-3 Magic, Babyproofing Your Marriage, 101 Ways to Help Your Daughter Love Her Body. This is a short list of parenting books I haven’t read but sound valuable. Will I ever read them? Not sure. A book… you know, it just has so many… pages. Someone figured me out [...]

This post is from from my other blog here

Siblings Without Rivalry, 1-2-3 Magic, Babyproofing Your Marriage, 101 Ways to Help Your Daughter Love Her Body. This is a short list of parenting books I haven’t read but sound valuable. Will I ever read them? Not sure. A book… you know, it just has so many… pages. Someone figured me out [...]

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A million years ago, I spent my time doing backhandsprings on my friend Sharon’s front lawn and charging her neighbors a quarter to see them, lemonade stand-style. I’m sure that Sharon and I had a beautiful sign explaining our trick-turning policies, covered with stickers, because we were really into stickers. Sharon and I went [...]

This post is from from my other blog here

A million years ago, I spent my time doing backhandsprings on my friend Sharon’s front lawn and charging her neighbors a quarter to see them, lemonade stand-style. I’m sure that Sharon and I had a beautiful sign explaining our trick-turning policies, covered with stickers, because we were really into stickers. Sharon and I went [...]

This post is from from my other blog here

A million years ago, I spent my time doing backhandsprings on my friend Sharon’s front lawn and charging her neighbors a quarter to see them, lemonade stand-style. I’m sure that Sharon and I had a beautiful sign explaining our trick-turning policies, covered with stickers, because we were really into stickers. Sharon and I went [...]

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Warming up from the cold weather, we jet down to Orlando to spend a week doing fun family activities. Ok, we’re not really going anywhere, but if you already live in Orlando (or plan to visit), you can thank SuZ and her daughter (who’s almost the same age as Milo!) from NotYourTypicalMommy Blog for the [...]

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Warming up from the cold weather, we jet down to Orlando to spend a week doing fun family activities. Ok, we’re not really going anywhere, but if you already live in Orlando (or plan to visit), you can thank SuZ and her daughter (who’s almost the same age as Milo!) from NotYourTypicalMommy Blog for the [...]

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Our friends, Doug and Sharon, are expecting their second baby. After a recent jaunt to Tahoe with their toddler, Ainslie, I asked Doug for tips on fun stuff to do in the snow (that’s right old friends, I’m embarrassed to admit it but snow is something we visit out here — not endure. And we [...]

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When I saw this post by phat baby photographer I totally related to his description of watching four kids for 90 minutes and hoping a whole day had gone by. He compared it to an episode of 24. Love that. Then he suggested a way to get 5 minutes to yourself - or to get some [...]