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My friend Jeanine once told me there’s lots of fun time to be had with baby at an outdoor store like REI: you just set up a sweet pad in the display tent with several of the Thermarest mattresses, chirping bird toys, bright colored water bottles, etc and have a blast. The first time I took [...]

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This week, I took a batch of my kids’ outgrown clothes to the second-hand store in our neighborhood and earned myself a whopping $7.50. I promptly spent it in the store on a Melissa & Doug necklace-making kit for Julian. He loves wearing costumes and jewelry and we had been talking recently about making [...]

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I consider myself a crafty lady. I’m not super accomplished in this arena, but I’ve given my share of handmade gifts. My friend Karen is suddenly challenging my definition of “crafty” by suggesting that I make fruit leather, toaster tarts, and BUTTER in her new book Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It: And Other Cooking [...]

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The cool chicks at Cool Mom Picks have put together a Mother’s Day gift guide. But I want to know what you guys wish for. It can be material (I’ll take some earrings from Anthropologie) or non-material (Banana pancakes in bed. No whining. And for my linen closet to be totally organized.) Heather [...]

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When we look back in 25 years, we will marvel that our babies have become adults who drive cars and earn their own paychecks. (Here’s hoping!) You probably have a baby book to track your bambino’s progress through the first year: sitting up, crawling, first tooth, and so on. But how will you remember your rookie year? [...]

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When we look back in 25 years, we will marvel that our babies have become adults who drive cars and earn their own paychecks. (Here’s hoping!) You probably have a baby book to track your bambino’s progress through the first year: sitting up, crawling, first tooth, and so on. But how will you remember your rookie year? [...]

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If you’ve already started your maternity leave but are just waiting for your baby bundle’s arrival, you have a golden window of opportunity to get some stuff done. But what? When it was my turn, I lounged around the house getting very bored before my good friend Scott decided he wanted to learn [...]

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If you’ve already started your maternity leave but are just waiting for your baby bundle’s arrival, you have a golden window of opportunity to get some stuff done. But what? When it was my turn, I lounged around the house getting very bored before my good friend Scott decided he wanted to learn [...]

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Fellow Bay Area baby blogger, Catherine, sent us this agenda for a week’s worth of preschooler activities in the South Bay. “Our family loves exploring the Bay Area,” she writes, “and I write a blog about our adventures, explorations, and food finds. I’ve comprised a list with a bit of everything for each day of [...]

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Fellow Bay Area baby blogger, Catherine, sent us this agenda for a week’s worth of preschooler activities in the South Bay. “Our family loves exploring the Bay Area,” she writes, “and I write a blog about our adventures, explorations, and food finds. I’ve comprised a list with a bit of everything for each day of [...]

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A local friend of mine, Jackie, has two little kids and has a sharp eye for the visually beautiful. Just look at her house. She recently blogged that a turkey baster is the key to making pancake batter into fun shapes. I was thrilled to learn this hack because I had been ordered to make Mickey [...]

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A local friend of mine, Jackie, has two little kids and has a sharp eye for the visually beautiful. Just look at her house. She recently blogged that a turkey baster is the key to making pancake batter into fun shapes. I was thrilled to learn this hack because I had been ordered to make Mickey [...]

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Have you already heard about the Happiness Project? Gretchen Rubin took a year to test drive every happiness principle, tip, theory, and scientific study to try to see if any of them really worked. In her memoir (now available for pre-order) and blog, she goes into great detail about how each experiment fared in her [...]

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Have you already heard about the Happiness Project? Gretchen Rubin took a year to test drive every happiness principle, tip, theory, and scientific study to try to see if any of them really worked. In her memoir (now available for pre-order) and blog, she goes into great detail about how each experiment fared in her [...]

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Apparently, once your baby can wave “hello”, he can begin signing other things, too. If you’re convinced that your baby has something to say, but just doesn’t have the words, consider getting with the signing program. The experts on baby stuff, say that you should start signing a few things consistently around 8 months. I followed [...]

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Apparently, once your baby can wave “hello”, he can begin signing other things, too. If you’re convinced that your baby has something to say, but just doesn’t have the words, consider getting with the signing program. The experts on baby stuff, say that you should start signing a few things consistently around 8 months. I followed [...]

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When I found out I was having a second boy, at first I was shocked. Not that I didn’t want a second boy — I was still totally afraid of little girls (having been mean to my own mom until … ummm, now) — but I grew up in a boy/girl house and I just [...]

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Seven months old and bored already? The nerve of some people. If it seems that everyone else’s toys are more fun, find another mom to trade with. Agree to a trade period like 2 weeks and then trade back. If you hang with a bigger posse, call it a toy swap. Everyone brings [...]

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Outside of the side door of my house lives an attractive collection of strollers and their cousin, the red wagon. I am using the word “attractive” sarcastically. There’s the single stroller, the jogger, the double. And I’m not the one who is the stroller whore. It really reminds me that my family is living [...]