How many times have you been invited to someone’s home, and you’ve brought along a bottle of wine? We’ve done that. A lot. And I don’t know the first thing about wine. I really don’t. And that’s rather sad, when you consider that my uncle ran a Napa Valley Vineyard. And now owns a successful [...]

So this is going to sound cliche, I’m sure, But cliche? Not so bad if it’s actually doing something good, right? Here goes… I’m trying so simplify life over here. Yes, you read that correctly. The ultimate consumer is on a down-scaling binge. It’s too much. There’s just too much stuff in my home. In [...]

My husband loves pizza. Almost as much as I do. And although his preference is for deep-dish, and my preference is for a simple New York slice, we do see eye to eye on one thing… It has to be good. Really good. No Tombstone frozen pies over here. And so as it happens, right [...]

My husband left very early this morning for Beijing. As in China. For six weeks. He’s on his way over there for the Olympics. And it was a really tough goodbye. We didn’t have a lot of time to make the decision whether or not he should go, so I’m not sure how much thought [...]

So this is, apparently, the week of cool websites that you just need to check out. I am completely in awe of Haute Nature. I mean, really. This site is fantastic. In addition to being about creative projects, which I’m all about these days, it’s also green. As in good for everyone and everything. And [...]

We had a busy holiday weekend, as I’m sure that most of you did, too. Fireworks on Thursday night with the girls, a parade on Friday morning, and then more fireworks on Friday night. There were a lot of daytime catnaps, late night meltdowns and good times were had by all. And everything was punctuated [...]

I can’t remember exactly how I found out about the online magazine Sprig. I know it was via Meredith, but I can’t recall if I saw a link to it on her site or if she emailed me about it. But however it was, it was a really great find. I am in love with [...]

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, [...]

Last Wednesday was the opening day of our local weekly Farmer’s Market. Out of 80 vendors, barely 15 showed up. It was cold. And rainy. Yet there we were, my husband, my girls and myself. I’d been looking forward to this day for months. I wasn’t going to miss it for the world. Among the [...]

The first time that I’ve ever written about a product that I hadn’t actually used before was when I wrote of my shopping spree for Sigg bottles for my girls. You know, the whole “out with the bad and in with the green” craze that occurred in my kitchen a couple of weeks ago? I [...]

Do you smell your kid’s head as much as I do? I am particularly guilty of doing so with Coco, since she’s still a “pocket baby,” and loves nothing more than being in my arms. Some days? I sniff the sweetness right out of her hair. And so, I’m forever searching for the perfect baby [...]

I have a problem. Well, an addiction, actually. To lip stuff. Balm, gloss. It’s serious. Seriously expensive. And it has to stop. Periodically, I go through my make-up drawers and weed through the immense collection of lip products I’ve bought, in order to simplify my life. I send at least one dozen tubes, jars and [...]

We have two drawers in the kitchen that are specifically appointed to hold plastic cups for the girls. Sippy cups, sports cups, tumblers. You name it, it’s in there. And chances are? If it’s a sippy cup? It’s missing that little plastic piece that you stick in the top to keep the beverage from leaking [...]

We have two little girls. We’re probably not going to have more children, at least not biologically, because we decided to have my tubes tied after Coco’s birth. It was a decision that I made at the end of a very unpleasant pregnancy and although there have been times that I’ve regretted it deeply, the [...]

I don’t ever enter “give-aways.” And it’s not because I’m one of those people who says “I never win anything,” because actually, I do win things. A lot. Like a jar of jelly beans as a kid for guessing within 50 just how many beans were in the jar. Or the $100 gift certificate to [...]