Summer vacation means… family road trips! (Cue ‘Are we there yet…’) I remember family road trips as a kid; 3-hour drives to the beach from my hometown of Fresno, CA, my sister and I arguing over one of our arms touching our ‘side’ of the backseat… you know, the usual kid stuff. Do I remember…
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How to clean house with kids? {LG Electronics HOM-BOT}
An FYI: The following tale is part of a sponsored partnership with LG Electronic’s HOM-BOT Square Vacuum and Mom.me. All experiences and opinions are mine. Ah, The House. It’s a beast. It can get out of control so fast. How to clean house with kids can be, well, challenging. The toys. The dishes. The crumbs all over the…
Working Mom: Why I don’t let my girls watch me on TV.
Got working mom guilt? I can’t say I do, but I do have working mom worries. Thanks to TV gigs (CBS Los Angeles!), writing a book (The FAB Mom’s Guide!) and maintaining this baby of a blog (plus other sites I write for!), I officially became a full time working mom this past February (meaning, the hours…
CBS Los Angeles: Tie those toddlers up.
My toddler safety tips are based on the following philosophy: I just don’t mess around with toddlers. Never have, never will. They’re too tricky… unpredictable… sneaky and suspicious (in the most adorable way, of course). Call me overprotective, call me a freak, call me annoying. We are all entitled to find our own ways of…
Memorial Day: Remember to tell the kids…
Memorial Day Weekend: I’m beginning to realize the Memorial Day holiday is split between two chapters of life — Before Babies and After Babies. There’s the holiday that revolves around the beach, BBQs, booze and bikinis and then there’s the holiday that includes fighter jets flying overhead, ceremonies at cemeteries, parades and hanging a flag outside your…
The mother & daughter date that shocked me.
What happened when I took my oldest daughter, LadyP (now 5!) on a date? Lots of things. Shocking things. It happened on Mother’s Day (I know, I’m writing this late — but I’ve been thinking about it so much lately). For months she’d been asking, “Mommy can you and me just go somewhere by ourselves?”…
Talk, Read, Sing: FLASHBACK. {First 5 California}
These days, we do a lot of talking at our house. (Nonstop, actually.) Singing and reading are frequent too. It’s how we’ve rolled since the beginning. Mostly because I didn’t quite know what else to do. How to kill time with a newborn and then how to make the day fly by with two babies…
