When I was pregnant with my first daughter, I made the wacked-out choice (by today’s obsessive compulsive standards, anyway) to NOT find out the gender of my baby before delivery. (Spoiler alert: She was a girl — hooray!) I also made the same unfathomable choice (again, people thought I was nuts) to NOT find out…
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CBS Los Angeles: What I NEVER thought I’d tackle on TV.
The hardest job of a parent is to raise our kids in the world we live in — not the world we want it to be. I started working in television as an entertainment reporter back in 2005. No way did I ever want to talk about hard news — murders, tragedy, destruction — ever….
CBS Los Angeles: The BIG way to prep kids for disaster.
How to prepare kids for disaster? Oh geez. This is where we’re at right now, isn’t it. My daughters are ages 5 and 6 (technically, the older on is this close to 7 — and she will remind you if you say she’s 6). They’re little. But man, the world is freakin’ me out lately….
FAB on E! The before-babies goal finally comes true…
The FAB news? I finally made it to E News! The funny part? I had to have two back-to-back babies, plug away at a blog for 7 years and write a 256 page book to get there. And some think showbusiness isn’t real, hard work. For your (FAB) entertainment, take a peek at my ‘bumpy’…
Moms & Swimsuits: 1-piece, 2-piece, 3-piece, SCORE! {Aurein Swim}
DISCLOSURE: This post sponsored by Aurein Swim. All experiences and opinions are mine. Follow Aurein on Facebook & Instagram. Discount code at the bottom of this post… The ongoing moms-in-swimsuits convo online makes me laugh and also kills me. Do you wear one? Do you cover up? Do you rock the bikini? Do you stick with…
Back to School: When a backpack freaks you out.
It’s here! We’re back. Back to early mornings, back to schedules, back to school backpacks. And we feel fine. (Even though I’m not quite done with sleeping in and making the daily big choice between going to the pool or just hanging around for the day… but it’s not all about me, now is it?)…
Mom Talk CBS Los Angeles: Get Emotional? Back to School Tips.
Back to school is here! How to prepare? Forget the cute backpacks — it’s much bigger than that. Thanks to smart+savvy longtime teacher Carly Anderson of Lipgloss and Crayons, I am stepping it UP and preparing my kids EMOTIONALLY (which sometimes means: don’t pick your nose!). Here’s what teachers want us to heed for back-to-school…
