One of my goals for the new year is to be more organized and consistently keep my house presentable – a tall order for a busy work-at-home mom with two little kids. But I want it bad enough to try. To that end, I have re-organized my bedroom closet with a new organizing system including [...]
My husband and I have been ripping through our house, trying to regain control on the built up mess and clutter that has been plaguing us lately. My most recent project? Shocking some organization into my closet. The Simply Sarah Handy Hold All couldn’t have arrived on my doorstep at a better time.
The GOOD: The [...]
Finding a quality producer of invitations, thank you cards and more makes me very anxious. In fact, I hemmed and hawed about it so much that I never ended up purchasing any announcements when either of my children were born. I just couldn’t decide, so I didn’t.
That was before I was introduced to Paper Shouts. [...]
Let’s face it: first time parents need all the help they can get! I certainly did. Everything worried me — from whether my son was developing at the right rate to how having a child would impact my relationships. But many books are geared and written towards either both parents or moms. How about a [...]
After running around all day, doing errands, taking my son to preschool and working, my feet are tired. And if it’s a work day where I have to be in Manhattan, then my feet are achy too. So I really appreciate foot products that give my feet some much needed relief.
The Pedi-Relax 3-Piece Gift Set [...]
I was a Barbie and Jem and the Holograms girl. I had probably a dozen dolls collectively from the sets and loved to play, pretending to have dinner parties in the Barbie Townhouse and more. And it still makes me smile to think about.
These days, Jem is a thing of the past and Barbie has [...]
When I was a tween (we were called preteens back then), I was a voracious reader (yes, I am stealing Cate’s word). I particularly loved book series because you could get to know and fall in love with characters. They would become literary friends, through which you could experience things far beyond whatever happened in [...]
When I was pregnant with my son, we didn’t find out his sex, and all along I said he was going to be a girl. In fact, I went so far as to buy my husband a book called From Father to Daughter, which has all sorts of advice about raising a little girl. So, [...]
My three-year-old son, Will, loves to read. He is psyched every night to see what book we are reading. My one-year-old daughter, Paige, on the other hand? She’d rather toss the books in the air or grab them and eat them.
Still, even if it’s just for biting, I like Paige to have books that are [...]
At the end of September, I received an email from Laura Shumaker asking if I would review her book and directing me to her website. There, I was drawn into an excerpt of her book, A Regular Guy: Growing up with Autism. And when I say drawn in, I mean I stopped everything else to [...]
