Playrooms are a great place to encourage positive play and imagination, and to help keep all the toys in one spot. If you are lucky enough to have an extra space to dedicate solely to the kids (a spare bedroom, den, family room, or basement), boy do we have some eye candy for you. We’ve searched high and low […]
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by Whitney Moss on June 23, 2014 in Eating,Free/Cheap,Green,Month 5 Navigating the stroller through a busy farmers market is a worthwhile challenge. There are so many things to look at for your baby, it’s worth the effort. Does this not sound like enough action for you? Believe me, it is. You will see other babies, […]
This is a list of flexible jobs for stay-at-home moms, and I’ll acknowledge that for some women, none of them will be a fit. It’s not a list of flexible jobs for women who are lawyers, pilots, pharmacists, or product managers. The idea here is that there are some opportunities to leverage technology to earn […]
by Whitney Moss on June 30, 2014 in Mommy,Month 5,Sleepy We know there are those people whose infants start sleeping eleven or twelve hours a night around four months old. These so-called “babies” take three daily naps at 8, 12 and 4.30. And then there are the rest of us. At one point my moms […]
I’m pretty sure that STITCH FIX was invented just for me. Since it started in the Bay Area, it is highly possible that someone overheard my weird clothes-shopping peculiarities in some coffee shop and launched it into a startup. That really happens out here. The deal is that real-life human stylists create a box of 5 items […]
by Whitney Moss on July 14, 2014 in Bay Area,Green,Mommy,Month 3,Outside,Portland By the time my first baby was 10 weeks old, I had not exercised for about 6 months. Baby Bootcamp was my re-introduction to sweating and I loved it. I was not a gym-goer in my normal life, and Baby Bootcamp was perfect for […]
by Heather Flett on July 8, 2014 in Free/Cheap,Geeky,We Love It (For Mom) I share this tip in the hopes that I’m not the last person on Earth to discover Canistream.it. My family has “no cable;” instead we have a hodge-podge of other subscription services like Hulu-plus and Netflix with a little Amazon streaming and iTunes […]
Years ago, I went to my first mom’s group meeting, lugging my 5-week old in his bucket carseat. My c-section scar was still hurting when I lifted the seat and my breasts were so large from nursing that I felt unlike myself. Normally petite, abeit with C-cups passed down through many generations of voluptuous Russian […]
by Heather Flett on July 7, 2014 in Bay Area,Free/Cheap,Month 5,Silly Your weekly challenge is to enjoy the rainbow of colors at an outdoor plant nursery. Let her touch/listen to the wind chimes on display, tour the orchid hot-house, and watch the koi in the water garden pond (the bright-colored fish swarm up to greet […]
Ever since my husband Mike and I were dating, I’ve wanted to visit him at work. He always kept me at bay, telling me that no one else’s girlfriends/fiancees/wives have ever visited, there was nothing to see, and that he wasn’t even sure it was allowed for him to have a visitor. Because he does work […]
We’re moms. We’re busy. We’re exhausted. And it’s all too easy to keep throwing on the same leggings, tank, and sweatshirt day after day. While we’re totally cool with that, we also love a challenge from time to time to actually love and embrace what we’re wearing…while not feeling ridiculous at the playground. With that […]
The Challenge: Go to a Baby Yoga Class One of the biggest worries I have as a new mom is taking Weston into the greater world. I get a little nervous about people responding to him; if he’s crying, or hungry, or needs to be changed, I don’t exactly know all the protocol yet, and […]