I have a love-hate relationship with Gwyneth Paltrow. When she’s talking about her kids, I love her. When she’s making snooty statements to the press, I don’t love her so much.
She has a website now, called “Goop (unfortunate name, right?).” I’m not really certain why she has this site. A public service, perhaps? To teach [...]

With summer in full swing, and Pea in day camp all week long, she’s looking so fresh and healthy and… tan. Interesting, since I lube her up with a very high SPF every morning before she leaves the house, and I know they continue to apply sunblock at camp to the campers, throughout the day. [...]

I’ve written several posts now about the enormous consumption of sunblock in our home. We go through the stuff at a rapid pace. Especially the girls, being that they are so fair-skinned. They definitely got that from their daddy. Even before we head out into the yard with the dogs, for just a few minutes, [...]

The sun is frying us out here. I am constantly slathering us all up with SPF before leaving the house, to do anything. And a few weeks ago, I saw a new doctor who told me that the most important thing that I can do for my health is to use sunscreen. Every day. And [...]

I’ve been warned so many times over recent years about needing to wear sunblock. And I’ve been faithful to this advice, for the most part. My moisturizer always has at least an SPF 15 in it. And when I’m in the sun for longer amounts of time, I wear real and dedicated sunblock. My girls? [...]

About a week ago, my husband and I took the girls over to a local gymnastics place to check out the activities for kids. When we walked in, we were standing behind a glass wall watching girls who could not have been more than 10 doing all kinds of flips and flops. Pea instantly kicked [...]

I did it. I bought the book. I swore I never would. Hated the name and assumed it was about “super-slender vanity.” You know, those women who run around and you see them and think to yourself, “how is she running around? how is she able to get out of [...]

My mother, GiGi, is terrified of looking her age, but I believe she’s even more terrified of feeling her age. She’s had a lot of health issues in her lifetime, dating all the way back to her early 20s, and so she’s always been very conscious about taking care of her body and [...]

Ugh. What a week. It started off with a bang, but now here we are, Saturday evening, and yet again, both girls have a rattle in their chest, Pea couples her rattle with a runny nose, and I had some weird stomach virus that I gave to my husband, who promptly gave it [...]

I sign up for a lot of daily emails from wellness-health-beauty-related websites. I’m just always looking for that little gem. I do end up canceling most of them because they are way off the mark of what I am looking for. But this site has not disappointed me yet. Vital Juice [...]

I don’t handle stress well. Never have. And when I say stress, I don’t mean the big and obvious life stresses. Those, well those, I manage to somehow deal with. Don’t ask me how. I cope. But it’s the ridiculously little and mundane stresses that are killing me. [...]

Wow. There are just some days that feel like they are never going to end. This was one of them. Both girls have runny – very runny – noses, and Coco has been fighting me to go to sleep for the last two hours. Her bedtime is at 7, and it’s [...]

Hmm. I just reread yesterday’s post, and I think I should clarify a few things. Starting with this: losing weight was not easy. At least not as easy as I might have implied. Yes, I signed up for Weight Watchers and yes, I followed it. But not always [...]

Oh my gosh, Coco is teething. Hard. I’m changing her shirts up to six times a day (and sometimes her pants, too!) because of all the drool. Both of my shoulders are sore from being gummed by her, as are my fingers. And my once happy-to-sleep-all-night little baby is now waking [...]

I can’t believe I’m even going to admit this out loud, but here goes… My name is Melissa, and I’m a Weight Watcher. Yes, I signed on last Sunday and began first thing that Monday morning. I am just so determined to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight, and after hours and hours [...]