Despite my good intentions, every summer my girls (and I!) fall into bad habits: sleeping in late, not reading as much, late dinners, no real schedule. I found this great list of 5 Tips to Get Your Kids Ready for the School Year. Catlyn Caldart, a first-grade teacher in the Seattle area, suggests:Read, read, read.Make…… Continue reading Back to School Basics

I just wrapped up another week of Camp Kaleidoscope — the brainchild of my dear friend Erica. Every summer, a group of my mom friends with girls the same age get together and host a week full of fun camp days. For my girls it’s a week long playdate with their good friends after being…… Continue reading Camp Kaleidoscope

For all us suburban moms, soccer season is rapidly approaching, but I’m not talking about that kind of goal. I mean personal goals, professional goals even fitness goals. The always fabulous Stacy DeBroff at Mom Central has a great story on family goal setting. This is something my family always try to do each year…… Continue reading Go for the Goal!

BlogHer ’08 was a fantastic — and a great mini-escape to San Francisco. I met so many inspiring women there — all bloggers like me. If you have a chance to attend a BlogHer conference, do! You’ll return re-energized to blog, write and even be a better mom. So maybe now I’ll breathe a little…… Continue reading BlogHer ’08

One of my new favorite sites is Garnish. Just like can lose myself for hours in Seattle’s Packaging Specialities store, I love to browse this site and dream of the craftiness I can create with paper sno-cone wrappers, plastic clam-shell containers, miniture squirt bottles and more. They give you great ideas like the “Girls Night…… Continue reading Garnish Galore

We love the Wii in our family. We long hesitated to expose our twins to mindless electronic gadgetry but gave in this past Christmas when Santa left a Wii under the tree. We’ve been in love ever since. Georgia, my sporty girl, likes to play tennis, baseball and boxing and even had a Wii Sport-themed…… Continue reading Wii Fit — TMI for Kids?

During a bout of insomnia I tuned into the 2008 MTV Movie Awards last night. It was suprisingly entertaining — even for this forty something. Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey reunited in a funny Wayne’s World skit, Tom Cruise presented and in what perhaps were the most memorable moments for me, Johnny Depp (rocking a…… Continue reading MTV Movie Awards

I love personalized stationary. Maybe it’s because I have such a weird name (OK, only my first name…the one that stays with me the rest of my life). As a kid I coveted the plastic license plates my friends Lori and Joan had on their bicycles. Nothing ever came with my name on it. So…… Continue reading Simply Fabulous!