I am a complete sucker for paper products: thank you notes, personalized correspondence cards, return address labels. So it goes without saying that our girls have their own stationery, too. And have had their own since they were tiny little bambinos.
I’m always looking for cards that are whimsical without stepping too far into the overly-childish. [...]

I love the idea of Monkey Bar Buddies. Pea won’t wear anything but a dress these days, and if you could only see how she carries herself in one, you’d totally be on-board with my new rule of “only shorts on camp days.” You’d also totally be on-board with my need for major damage control [...]

Not that I’ve had a lot of time lately to play around on my computer, but there were a few late night’s over the past week, spent checking out the links of sites that I love. I found some good ones!
My Mama Made It is my newest addiction, and it’s such a new blog that [...]

As part of our plan to simplify our home, my husband and I have had several meetings of our minds about the current toy situation in our home. We have a lot of toys. Or rather, the girls have a lot of toys. So many, that this is usually how playtime goes down…
Girls: Mommy, can [...]

Tomorrow morning is the baby shower that I’m hosting for my friend, who’s baby girl is due in one month. And this has been a crazy few weeks, so when I say that I really did wait until the last minute to get the details together, I’m not kidding. I did. I spent three hours [...]

Coco is passionate about butterflies. She’s constantly talking about them, pointing them out in pictures, giving me butterfly kisses with her impossibly long eyelashes.
So one of her birthday gifts was a little collector’s case with a dozen butterflies in it. And for a week, she dragged that box of butterflies with her everywhere she went. [...]

Why do kids have so much stuff? Some days I feel like I’m up to my eyeballs in random collections of nothing. I regularly go through the girls’ toys and make piles for donations. Toys, puzzles and games that are too ‘old’ for them get put away for later days. Broken pieces get mended or [...]

Okay, so I am big into storage. No, huge into storage. Of anything. And everything. I firmly believe that every single thing in our home should have it’s place. It’s home. It’s resting place. And if it doesn’t? And I find in on the kitchen island? Or the stairs? Or the floor of my bedroom? [...]

I spent most of the morning, while Pea and Coco were helping their Daddy hang some shelves in a closet, on the Internet, digging around for lunchbox meals that were healthy, appealing and easy to prepare. What shocked me the most is that there was such an abundance of ‘recipes’ centered around, what else, peanut [...]

Last night, I had the brilliant idea of letting the girls make their own pizzas for dinner. I had a couple of small Boboli pizza crusts in the bread box, which I always have on hand, for those surprise pop-in visits from other kids in the neighborhood. So I pulled them out, along with a [...]

It’s that time of the year. School starts soon. Pea has less than two weeks left of summer camp, and then she begins preschool the following Monday. Just one weekend to make the transition from summer fun to school uniforms.
Just as I did last year when she started pre-preschool, I ordered Pea a new backpack [...]

Pea’s little Ducky Lunch Bag was lost today, at a park. She went with her camp on a little picnic, and it simply went MIA. Not a big deal, at all. This is the first item of hers that’s ever been lost, so I’d say we’ve done pretty well. But sentimentally, it’s tugging at my [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]