The girls and I are back home from our trip up to visit Daddy in Vancouver. And although the trip was cut short by a few days, we had a great time. And honestly, if you are looking for a really family-friendly city to visit with little ones, I don’t think you can do much [...]

First off, a giant thank you! to Dancer for leaving a comment with a link to Angry Chicken and her moving box puppet theatre. Seriously awesome! I can’t wait to attempt my own version with Pea and Coco. Thanks for the link!
I’m taking Pea to see The Nutcracker in SLC in a few weeks with [...]

We just returned from a very long weekend with the girls in Chicago, visiting my mother and her husband. It was a lot of fun, schedules and routines were tossed into the wind, and the American Girl store will now be haunting me in my dreams for weeks to come. My sweet Pea? She was [...]

Back in 2005, when Pea was just a couple of months old, I opened up the latest issue of “D” magazine and became instantly hooked. Hooked on what, you might ask? Baby Bean Vintage Daywear. It was late summer of 2005, I believe. And Pea was barely two months old. She was living in onesies [...]

Three nights ago, I had my first night out with two of the nicest women I’ve ever crossed paths with. You know how there are a select few people that you encounter in your life who just have the ability to make you feel like you’ve known them forever? Well that is how these two [...]

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 never had pets growing up. Well, scratch that. We did have pets. We had a series of three hamsters, dozens of guppies and eventually a cat named Max. Notice what’s missing? A dog. When I was about 6, right before my parents divorce, my parents took my brother [...]

We left Denver very early this morning, so that we would be home by lunch. It was our final push, about eight hours in the car. I am amazed at how well my girls handled all of the driving. There was no real fussing or crying, just a little whining here and there, usually because [...]

Several months ago, my husband had a show in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was a whirlwind affair, he basically flew in, worked around the clock, then flew out. There was not much time to see the sites, let alone load up on traditional Russian souvenirs. But I had asked him to please, [...]

The awesome week we had planned in NYC for our family turned out to be little more than half a day of misery. Well, not all misery. But a good amount of it. We flew in, no issues. Got to my brother’s office to pick up his apartment keys. Let [...]

Here we go again, it seems like we just returned home, and already I am – once again – up to my eyeballs in Ziploc bags. Yup, we are getting ready to fly out to New York City in the morning. But this time, well this time I just couldn’t bring myself to [...]

When we went away on vacation, my husband and I said we weren’t going to obsess about what we ate. It’s a vacation, we were going to throw a little caution to the wind. And so, I kind of tossed aside my Weight Watchers ethos, along with that dreaded points calculator, and said [...]

We made it home yesterday, sometime in the late afternoon, presumably all in one piece and no worse for the wear. Yeah, right. About 6 last night, I spiked a fever of 103. My fingers ached, my toes ached. And my head felt as if there was a vice grip around [...]

Last full day of vacation. We came up here with a specific amount of cash, to avoid that dreadful feeling we’ve had before, you know the one: you return home from vacation, receive the American Express bill and think “holy heck, what did we do?” So this time, being the budget Goddess that I am, [...]

Tomorrow is our last full vacation day. As we near the end, I have learned, or rather reaffirmed, one important aspect of parenting. Schedule is king, at least in our home. We run on a tight schedule in Fort Worth, I know I’ve written about it before. We wake at the same time each day, [...]