(Me and my mom. Look at me with the Ambrosia Salad? What a poser.) We look like normal, grown women. We have jobs and pay property taxes. We swoon at Anthropologie, are secretly in love with Jason Mraz and have kids and husbands; all the outside appearances of being totally functional. But we have a […]
Dear Baby Einstein: Keep the cash!
“Hi, I’m Julie Clark, founder of The Baby Einstein Company…” More women have gotten naked to the sound of Julie’s voice than to the sound of Barry White, Marvin Gaye and Steve Perry’s voice combined. Why? That’s how every Baby Einstein video begins and it has been the cue for a lot of moms that […]
Halloween Dance Party!
Here is a silly little video Emily and and I made in our kitchen. (Music by Oingo Boingo, “Deadman’s Party.”)
Friday Five: Five ways to use ’80s music lyrics to annoy your kids and entertain yourself
I’m eight years into this parenting thing, which is far enough along to develop a few”tricks” to help me get through the squimishes and mind-numbing monotony that come with your mommy badge. I think every mom has these little tools. They are like little idiosyncratic things I do to keep myself from boarding the crazy […]
Friday Five: Five surprising reasons to watch Real Housewives of Orange County
You might think that The Real Housewives of Orange County is a frivolous show, a time-waster, just another reason to move to Portland, but there are some perfectly solid reason to tune-in to those housewives on Bravo, Nov. 5th. In past episodes they have proven to be helpful, insightful, and entertaining, but possibly […]
Breaking News: Rain
For most of you "Rain" isn't news, but in Southern California rain is a screaming headline, a reason for breaking news tickers running at the bottom of the T.V. screen. "Rain" is covered with the same intensity as a natural disaster and for my dogs–George in-particular–it IS a disaster. Maybe it has rained five times in […]
Emily’s Locks of Love challenge
It was a day almost a year in the making–the day my eight-year-old daughter, Emily, was going to get her hair chopped off for Locks of Love. She orginally got the idea when she saw George Parros, of the Anaheim Ducks, cut off his long black hair for charity. Though she wanted to do it […]
I hope my daughter goes (horse) crazy
(Emily and her horse, Piquito, at Kay el Bar Ranch.) When Emily was four-years-old we took her to Irvine Park Stables to watch the girls there practice riding. Emily was fascinated and declared, as all four-year-old girls do at some point, that she wanted a horse. Larry, as all good dads would do, knelt down, looked her right […]
Bob’s Big Boy: Reunited and it feels so good
For some reason, most of my fondest memories of being a kid are associated either with food or music. Along with the AM radio, Bob's Big Boy played a major roll in the first 15 or so years of my life. There used to be a Big Boy right down the street from where I […]
We just meant to scare them a little, not scar them for life
Art work available on Etsy. Chalk this one up to "one of those things you can laugh about with your kids later." Like WAAAY later. My husband, Larry, and I were just thinking of a creative way to get our kids to brush their teeth for two minutes. We had tried it all; toothbrushes that […]
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