During my first pregnancy with Pea, I was reading every book under the sun about pregnancy, childbirth, parenting, etc., I was always reading about this intense urge to nest that was going to come over me, presumably in my third trimester. But it never happened. I was pregnant, and then I wasn’t. There was no [...]

There are currently two programs on our TiVo record list for Pea. Both are recorded from the channel Noggin. One is “Dora the Explorer” and the other is “Max & Ruby.” Yes, she’s still in love with Dora. And now, I hear her counting more often in Spanish than I do in English. I’m not [...]

This is Pea’s Art Cart.

It sees a lot of action in our house. Pea loves to create things. She’s constantly making collages or paintings to send to her grandparents. Or she’s creating something to hang in her sister’s room. She will sit for hours and hours in front of this thing. It’s all organized by [...]

I used to live for the mail. I couldn’t wait to get to the mailbox and see what was in there. Bills? Magazines? An actual hand-written note? But I’m over it now. In fact, days might go by before I actually get to the mailbox. And I’ve let many of my magazine subscriptions lapse, like [...]

So I thought I would expound a little bit more on our adventures with potty training. Because in all of my initial excitement, I forgot to mention one thing: Pea won’t poop. In the potty. She will, however, poop everywhere else.
The big tip that I took from the book I mentioned yesterday, “Potty Training in [...]

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 [...]

We got the call today from the Head of Admissions at Pea’s new school that she got in. And she got the schedule we’d been hoping for. I am so relieved that it’s over, that we’ve found a great little school for her where she’s going to thrive.
But I’ve mentioned before that one [...]

Yesterday, my husband and I took Pea to visit the new school that we are trying to get her into for the fall. It’s a private school, which is kind of ironic since one of the main reasons we moved here is the phenomenal public school system. But in researching nursery schools, we [...]

I live for organization. It’s the single most important part of keeping my house clean, free of clutter and enjoyable to reside in. What I love even more is organization that is chic, stylish, and can do double-duty out in the open, rather than be tucked away, deep in the bowels of a [...]

Most of the Sunday’s that I can recall from my childhood were spent being dragged around by mother to art galleries or art fairs or art museums. This is not an exaggeration. GiGi is passionate about art. Major milestones were always marked with a piece of art, whether it be something she [...]

We are nothing if not readers in this house. And although my novel consumption has decreased drastically in the years since becoming a mom, I have definitely made up for it with my passion for children’s books. I love them. Classics. Board books. Classic board books. Classic board books [...]