Holiday gifts for teens can be tricky to get right, especially if you're shopping for kids in your life that you only see a few times a year. As the mom of teen girls with plenty of their friends around, I have polled them to garner data about their likes and dislikes when it comes to gifts. I … [Read more...]
The Ultimate Best Teacher Gift Guide
The end of the school year is fast approaching, and along with all the planning for activities, camps, family vacation, childcare or just coping with your kids full-time for two months, now you have to get a gift (or maybe two or three or four or - gulp - more...depending on your past fertility) … [Read more...]
Show me the money
Yesterday my firstborn turned the big 1-1. Or as I referred to it - the 11th anniversary of motherhood for me.I spent the day as I do on each of their birthdays - giving a play by play on what happened the day they were were born. Cam's starts around breakfast - my water broke. At … [Read more...]
That’s My Name
Recently my daughter came home from a birthday party clutching a sheet of stickers and exclaiming that it was the coolest loot bag ever. How cool could it be, I wondered, contemplating past loot bags full of Dollar Store bargains and stale candy?What was so cool about these stickers was that they … [Read more...]