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Our July 4th Story

This post is sponsored by RealTimes. For the past four years, our family has headed out to eastern Long Island for July 4th, alternating between the Hamptons ...

Great Outdoors, Protected

School is out for the next two months, and the big kids have started their little half day camps, leaving the remainder of our days to ...

Perception Perceived

In the past, I shared a story about a judgmental mom in our playground, which surprisingly drew lots of attention from friends and readers. Making comments like “Oh ...

2 4 6 Respectively

When chatting with Jason the other day, it occurred to me, that with the passing of Siella’s birthday, we will have children ages 2, 4, ...

Four & Fabulous

She’s a storyteller, with a heart of gold, and she is, by far, the smartest little big girl I have ever known. My precious Siella ...

A First Grade Memoir {& Giveaway}

As the end of the school year approaches, there are still field trips to be taken, spelling tests to complete, and homework to be done; but I ...

June Force

Every year, the month of June seems to come in with a sense of vengeance, and leaves us all scrambling. It’s probably one of our ...

Uniquely Designed

It’s amazing how one milestone in your child’s life leads into another one. At around four months old, Ryder’s teeth started coming in, which was ...

Back To Reality

We touched down on a JFK runway late Monday night, only to be greeted by a gloomy and rainy NYC, and the kids immediately looked ...

Back To Sleep

A few months back, Gemma started climbing out of her crib whenever I put her down to sleep. This behavior continued for a little over ...

Dropping The Ball

It was Monday morning and my day was planned out to the minute. I started shuffling between appointments for work, school pick up and drop ...

It Takes A Village

Three days before I was leaving for the Mom 2 Summit conference in Scottsdale, and I was already in a panic. The to-do lists were piling ...