The holiday season is my favorite time of year. Jingle bells, christmas carols, family, and loads of fun activities. However, in Los Angeles, it can be hard to get into the Christmas Spirit (it’s hard to rock out to…
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Sometimes you just need to read a children’s book. Today, after running around like a chicken with my head cut off, trying to shop for Thanksgiving dinner, my son asked me to read him “Being Thankful,” by Mercer Mayer.…
It’s that time of year! Thanksgiving…turkey, football, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, more turkey, family, chaos and fun! If you are like me, you have known the day was coming, yet have failed to really acknowledge it and now you…
One of my fondest Thanksgiving memories doesn’t involve Turkey, football or parades…it involves good old-fashioned EXERCISE! My mom is a fitness instructor and every year on the night before Thanksgiving we would all sit on the family room floor…
Thanksgiving is the perfect time to teach kids all about giving back! Today we went as a family to The 18th Annual Film Freak Thanksgiving Food Drive to donate food for those in need. Check out the video of…
I used to try to keep Avery entertained while I cooked dinner. It ALWAYS ended poorly. We don’t have an open kitchen (something I pine for daily), so I would first attempt to get A to play in the actual kitchen.…
Check out the premiere of Cooking with Kids! In our first episode, we make HEALTHY pizzas. Quick, easy and fun to make with your toddler. Why? Because food tastes better when you cook it together!…
I run out of gas…a lot. I’m not sure why I don’t look at the gas gauge. Ok, I do look at the gas gauge, and I usually think to myself – I should get gas…but that somehow gets trumped…
It’s easy to get caught up in the little things and lose sight of what really matters. We do it all the time. I am insanely guilty of it. I waste precious moments stressing about the most ridiculous things, like…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Charles Dickens Never have I understood those words with more truth than on July 13th 2013. The day my son was born was in fact the most amazing…