I take Pea to The Little Gym on Tuesdays. We go year-round, but I think it’s particularly important for her to go during the summer, because often it is just too unbearably hot to play outside, and she needs somewhere to go to get out all of her energy. This kid has boundless energy. If [...]

One of my favorite things about being mommy to two little girls is dressing them. I just can’t get enough of the adorable clothing that’s out there. And I’m all too happy to spend a little extra for quality, and so continues my love affair with Mini Boden. Their stuff is incredible. It’s gorgeous fabrics, [...]

Apparently, we also missed the face painter who blows up animal-shaped balloons and the professional photographer. Darn.

Oh my goodness, Baby Brain has reared it’s ugly head. Again. I showed up for my niece’s first birthday party, two kids and a babysitter in tow, at the end. The party was called for 5 to 7, and for some ungodly reason, I had it in my head that it was from 7 to [...]

Right after having my second baby, Coco, I made a promise to myself that I was not going to be that mom anymore… the one who lives her life in sweats. Having two pregnancies so close together, I never really got out of my pregnancy pants after the first go-around, with Pea. And although technically [...]

EMERGENCY! I couldn’t find one of my Lily Padz this morning. It was a nightmare. There was sheer panic for about 2 minutes until I reached down and realized I was wearing it. Duh. But when I thought it was missing, I was about to wake up my sleeping baby and drive all the way [...]

I am not supposed to say the following, but I’m going to say it anyway: sometimes I feel like a single parent. I am home alone so much with the girls, days and sometimes weeks on end, while my husband is out traveling the world for work. And it’s good work, I’m not saying I’m [...]

So my very cool younger brother lives in a very chic NYC apartment. He designs shoes for a living but is an artist at heart and I mean it when I say that his coolness level cannot be touched. He travels between NYC, China & Italy monthly, with fairly regular pit-stops in places like France [...]

Chris O’Donnell, the actor, is having his fifth child with his wife. And I am jealous. I should clarify that this is not some random jealousy either. He and I grew up down the road from one another on Chicago’s North Shore. Although he is a couple of years older than me, it’s always been [...]

This sweet little girl who can dress herself in cute little matching outfits she picks out all by herself and then go into the bathroom to brush her teeth, wash her hands and admire herself in the mirror… …and who can entertain herself for a good hour on the kitchen floor by playing drums on [...]

It’s a quiet Saturday morning here in Fort Worth. After waffles, smoothies & a very long watercolor painting session, Pea announced to me that she was ready to take a nap. This doesn’t happen often in our house, that she asks us to put her down for a nap. But she insisted she was tired [...]

My niece’s first birthday party is a week from this Saturday, and I wasn’t sure I was going to attend until today. My ambivalence about going was due to 1) my husband being unable to attend with us; 2) my feeling left out when I’m with his family and he’s not there to act as [...]

I don’t read newspapers anymore for the same reason I don’t watch the news: there are just too many devastating stories out there about how cruel people are to one another. I make it a point to check in on some news sites in the morning to get the information that I deem important and [...]

When I lived in NYC, I was a major designer shopper. I would walk into Prada or Gucci or some other ridiculously expensive boutique, and although at the time my salary was well under $50,000, I would buy whatever I saw that I liked and fit. Oftentimes, I wouldn’t even look at the price first. [...]