When your kid’s friends come over, are you a Mrs, a Ms, or a first name only kind of mom? Some people don’t care…and some people care a lot. When I relocated from a relaxed city neighborhood to a small New England town, I came face to face with tightly held values concerning traditionalism and formality. ...
Despite my chips-stealing incident (posted on Momfilter last week), I feel like I’ve gained a little more mastery of my holiday season due to one simple tool: my Holiday Binder. My Binder Full of Christmas, if you will. It’s a 3-ring binder full of folders and page protectors into which I stuff my son’s Christmas ...
Christmas makes people do some crazy sh*t. Mostly women – because, for some reason, the bulk of the gift buying, gift wrapping, gift sending, party planning, holiday card creating/sending, menu planning, calendar management, wardrobe procuring, costume sewing and relative-pleasing is done by the woman of the family. And so it’s no wonder that I walked ...
For those of us who have yet to invest in something more than a metal bed frame for our kids, Blik Wall Graphics has the perfect solution: graphic interpretations of headboards that you apply to the wall like a giant sticker. In addition to headboards, they have adhesive robots, kitty cats, enchanted forests and castles, ...
We are working on independence at our house. At 10 years old, I shouldn’t be packing my son’s backpack for him in the morning. Nor should I have to hover over him while he ties his shoes, assaulting him with a long list of “don’t forgets.” “Don’t forget your glasses!” “Don’t forget your math worksheet!” ...
My hat is off to Little Free Library, a nonprofit organization providing materials, instructions and support for your own front yard self-serve library. LFL’s, as they’re called, are popping up all over my Minneapolis neighborhood and, according to organizers, the concept is spreading rapidly to other cities and towns across the nation. The little birdhouse-like ...
The Midwestern heat wave is wreaking havoc on my style. I wear some form of a muu muu and a swimsuit everyday and my hair is perpetually pulled into a sweaty nest on my head. Last week, I saw a young girl at the pool with this hot pink silk flower in her hair and ...
I had an experience the other day that we all have at one point or another. A quasi-time travel/shape shifting mindmeld where you are simultaneously the main character and the audience. I was doing some planting in the yard, wearing ill-fitting pants and outdated sneakers that I save just for such occasions. Pants too short, ...
Do you have dreams of a regular yoga practice with a bunch of cool women, in a beautiful studio in a trendy neighborhood, with designer yoga togs and a pretty water bottle that says “om” on the side? But then life gets in the way it just never happens? As a yoga instructor to moms and a ...
I’ve been watching the new NBC show “Up All Night” starring Christina Applegate (who is also the show’s creator) and SNL alum Maya Rudolph. It’s a show aimed right at the sleep-deprived jugular of anyone who is or ever has been a new parent. Christina Applegate is a new mom whose husband stays home to ...
When dining out, the iPhone has become both a blessing and a curse; my husband and I get to have an uninterrupted grown-up conversation with complete sentences but my son withdraws into the world of gaming, oblivious to the skills of waiting patiently or entertaining himself. I love it and I hate it. For times ...
December 1: The Holiday Season Begins.….and it goes surprisingly smoothly. We recently moved across the country so we were a little unsure of how this would go: we have no family, no social group, and we’re not involved in anything. Which sounds really sad but actually no family no friends no activities equals nothing on ...
