Our nerves were raked against the coals again on Wednesday night with a dose of unfortunate news that will affect our lives once we move back to California. It's nothing permanent or devastating, but certainly added stress during a time that we are stretched pretty...
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I've been spending a lot of time exploring pros and cons to living in New York City lately. I'm really not going to miss the weather, but I will long for the feeling in the air when the seasons change. I won't miss pushing a...
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Time is a very strange thing. It seems so poignant that these years with small children are so difficult at times, yet so much more wonderful than anything else. Every moment is fleeting and incredible and I fear so much that I'll forget so many...
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The first time we took Jack and Zoe together to a theater show, it was an off-Broadway performance of Angelina Ballerina. They were so great during the show, they were genuinely interested and so entertained by the cute dancing ballerina mice on stage. They we...
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Christmas wasn't my favorite holiday until I had children, and even then it took until last year for me to completely dive in and fully appreciate what Christmas means to me and my family. Holidays are fun with children, but this time of year is...
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I get really excited when companies I love do neat things, especially when the company has a product that I can't live without. 7 A.M. Enfant is run by exceptional, driven women who have a penchant for art and design, even (and especially) when it...
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I really wanted to post about our Thanksgiving, and while I know it's a little late for that, the relevance and significance of that day will last for a long, long time in my heart. Life had all but returned to normal after Hurricane Sandy...
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I was pretty confident going into this last pregnancy with Beau. It had been over two years since I had been pregnant the previous time, and my biological clock was working overtime. Jack and Zoe were born 19 months apart, and having them back to...
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I'm not sure there's another holiday that I have as much fun with as Halloween. I love the changing of the seasons, the apple and pumpkin picking trips, and the costumes. Finding costumes and dressing my kids up is really way more fun as a...
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A wise lifelong New Yorker once told me that the secret to living in Manhattan successfully is to leave often. So very true, and yet, not quite as easy as you'd imagine without owning a car. One of our hardest transitions into city life was getting rid...
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I sat down at my computer last night and went to upload a billion and a half photos from my iPhone and SLR. Unexpectedly, the following video showed up in my Flickr stream via my iPhone: (please excuse the vertical frame. sigh.) I probably watched it 8...
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After spending three weeks in California, the four of us came back with a penchant for all things urban and quintessential New York City. Ok, the other three probably didn't miss this place as much as I did even for the teeny blip of time...
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