So my darling four-and-a-half-year old did it. She cut her own hair. About one month ago. When her best friend was over. Side bangs, anyone? That’s what she gave herself. Claims there was gum in her hair. Which is odd. Since chewing gum is expressly forbidden in my home. I think it’s disgusting. But there [...]

So I mentioned yesterday that it’s now winter here. Pretty much. Cold. Snowing on and off. It’s definitely putting me in the holiday mood. I love this time of the year, Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and we’re on the cusp of Christmas and Hanukkah. It’s perfect. Add in the snow, and it’s even [...]

Ahh… bedtime routines. They have been my saving grace with the girls. The cornerstone of their lives, if you will. I nailed a good one down, early on with Pea, since passed down to include Coco, and it’s stuck with us through three years of goodnights. There have been tweaks along the way, the largest [...]

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, [...]

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? [...]

For the first two January’s of Pea’s life, she suffered from horrible eczema. We took her to a dermatologist who specialized in children and she, of course, prescribed steroid creams. We didn’t use them. It was just a personal decision based on what we knew that they would do to her skin, [...]

I love to shop at Target. I don’t know a mother who doesn’t. You can find everything under the sun there, and it’s all going to be pretty chic, too. I don’t know how they manage to do it, get in all of these really cutting edge designers and have them design [...]

When I made the decision a couple of months ago to try and “green” up our lives here in Fort Worth, I stumbled upon an amazing site called Saffron Rouge that specializes in organic beauty and skin care products for the entire family. But I forgot about the site, until I once again stumbled [...]

I love to give my girls massages before bed. It wasn’t always so successful with Pea, she tended to not want to sit still long enough to enjoy it, but with Coco, it’s a whole other story. She loves her massages. Every night after her bath, she coos and giggles and sighs [...]

I am a beauty product junkie. Chances are, if you can name it, I have tried it. Sometimes I wonder if my husband thinks that his sole purpose for working so hard is so that I can try literally each and every hair straightening product on the planet. And lip gloss. [...]

Ugh. What a day. I noticed this morning that Coco had a lot of what looked to be ear wax in her little ears. Only I later realized it wasn’t ear wax, but more likely it was spit up and drool that has pooled in her ears. Probably happened when she [...]

I don’t think my husband has any idea what it takes to get an infant to sleep at night. If he did, then surely he would stop coming into her room while I am in the throes of nursing and rocking her down and ask me where the flashlight is because the dude from [...]

On Wednesday evening at about 6:30, Sweet Pea was in the bath when we lost power. Everyone on my side of the street lost power. This would ordinarily not be a big deal except for two reasons 1) the people directly across the street from us did not lose power and 2) [...]