When I was pregnant with my first child a colleague told me that the most important thing she could advise about parenting was to put my baby on a schedule. I even read a book she recommended, but I really wasn't able to do it when he was so little. Then my 2nd child was born when my first was 14 months old. By then, he was on a strict schedule, so it was easy to just incorporate my new baby to that schedule. Now that I have 3 I think I ...
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4th of July Fun, Family, Food, and Finger Burning
When I was a kid, fireworks were available and no one thought twice about lighting them up for the Fourth of July. We would pick up supposedly child-friendly things like sparklers, morning glories, and those pop or snap type of fireworks (I forget the name.) My mom had some limits - no firecrackers or anything titled with letters and numbers (like M80.) Those were reserved for the adults and children had to be far away from the action. Where ...
What Would You Do With $1 Million?
Did you ever wonder what you would do with $1 million? Living in NYC, I can tell you that a million dollars will not get you far around here, especially if you are buying real estate. Houses and even small apartments in prime NYC run anywhere from $500,000 and up, topping at over millions of dollars. It's crazy, and this is the state we live in, but we are so rooted I can't see us leaving, ever. Aside from purchasing a home to call our own, ...
It’s a First Birthday Celebration with #PartyCity
Birthday parties are a big deal in our family. Each year for our children is a milestone, and we celebrate with our closest friends and family. Just a few weeks ago, my littlest girl celebrated her First Birthday and we threw her an awesome celebration thanks to Party City. Since she was born in the spring, butterflies always remind me of her and Party City had the perfect theme for her birthday! The Hugs and Stitches theme features butterflies ...
Netflix for Kids is Available Wherever You Go! #NetflixKids #ad
I use to make fun of my grandmother all the time when she would say, "leave me alone when I'm watching my shows" and would glue herself to the TV from 1-4pm during the weekdays. She had to watch her soaps everyday and find out who was plotting against who and which couple would enter a new hot and steamy love affair. Now, folks, making fun of grandma is NOT nice.. because you might spawn a little being that resembles her in so many ways, ...
Mistakes
Now that I have three children under the age of 5 I feel like I'm somewhat of a seasoned mom. I've got our routines down, I have a general idea of which kid needs what at various times of the day, and I nearly have a handle on the housework. Until this past week. Apparently everything I knew went out the window when I came down with a fever on Monday. It only lasted one day but it was long enough for me to spiral into a disastrous remainder of ...
Unplug this Mother’s Day and Join the #SocialBlackout Movement with @MetLife #spon
What are your plans for Mother's Day this year? For us, we try to include everyone, my mom, my hubby's mom, my girls, and myself. We really don't do anything big, last year I had just come home from the hospital with our second daughter, so we hosted Mother's Day in our home and had it catered in (because I was NOT about to cook!) The year before we visited each of our mother's individually, and this year we are planning on doing the same. I ...
What do the items in your nightstand say about you? #BedsideDrawer #ad
What do the items in your bedside drawer say about you? I have three drawers in my night stand and each one serves a purpose. I haven't figured out what that purpose is, but I'm still in the process of decluttering and trying to make sense of the odds and ends in my drawer. If the items in my night table say anything about me, this is what they would say: A half-read Jen Lancaster book (which I started before I was pregnant with baby #2) would ...