Our Daily Bread: Making it fun for kids to give throughout the year

I grew up with parents who gave back to their community on a very regular basis - food drives, volunteering at the recycling center, serving dinner at the homeless shelter, doing the heavy lifting to help set up whatever, whenever….

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Sleepover Central

Ah, Thanksgiving. 7 kids and 7 adults are packed like sardines in my sister’s house on Thanksgiving Eve. Oh, actually there are only 5 adults in the house, as my parents brought their “honeymoon suite,” their RV which is a…

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Parenting for the School Aged Years - A book club for The White Trash Mom Handbook

Here we are at book club again at Silicon Valley Moms Group, as announced last week, and Silicon Valley Moms Blog is hosting. Today, we are talking about The White Trash Mom Handbook, authored by our own Michelle Lamar from…

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The White Trash Moms Handbook: A Book Club Day coming up next Wednesday, November 12th

Join us next Wednesday, November 12th as the writers on Silicon Valley Moms Blog and our sister sites discuss the book, The White Trash Moms Handbook, authored by our own Michelle Lamar from Deep South Moms Blog. About The White…

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Valuable lessons: I don’t really need All That

Since starting to spend less money over the past month, my husband and I have been very pleased to rediscover that we really don’t need All That. Stuff. Dining Out. New Shiny Things. Extra Things. More, More, More. We can…

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Initiation into The Carpool Club

Last spring, when moms of the preschoolers in my 4-year-old twins’ class began talking about what next year’s class would be like, some of them mentioned carpools as a way to make things a bit easier. I nodded along, but…

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Saving money using the 80-20 Rule

The recent financial crisis has hit our family in a big way. Not directly - we don’t work on Wall Street. But Silicon Valley tech is not immune and we are nervous, to say the least. We have been tightening…

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Slowing down as we head back to (co-op) school

Often I hear about summer ending, school starting again and moms having more time to themselves as a result, since their kids having been home all summer long. Well…that isn’t going to be the case for our family. For us,…

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A working “virtually” mom decides there’s no place like home

I have worked from my home, with no office and with the minimization of paper and supplies since my twins were born 4 years ago. “Virtually,” some might say - a certain buzz word that has sprung up recently that…

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Living Strong

Yesterday, the Silicon Valley Moms team (consisting of myself, Ana and Courtney) from the Silicon Valley Moms Blog met up for the Livestrong Challenge 5K Walk/Run in San Jose. No, it was not 2000 miles, like our fellow Silicon Valley…

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Will I Be Blogging From a New 3G iPhone Next Week at Blogher?

Ever since last summer, when my little family went to the annual week-long 4th of July trip with my in-laws at a little lake near Tahoe and I stayed back at the RV with all 3 kids (all 3 years…

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Writing Motherhood: A Book Club Day coming up next Tuesday, June 17th

It is book club time again at Silicon Valley Moms Group. New Jersey Moms Blog will be hosting this time around as we take inspiration from the book Writing Motherhood by the amazing author Lisa Garrigues. This book is very…

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I’m so not ready to be a soccer mom

Summer is here and, with it, questions about what we will be doing in lieu of preschool for our 4-year-old boy-girl twins. Like some friends of ours, we haven’t signed up for summer school (because we do a co-op preschool…

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A gift for your child at the end of the school year


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Trying out a pet…and…maybe not


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Considering a parent participation/co-op school


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Can we leave technology at home during a couples-only weekend away?

My husband and I are headed to Tahoe this weekend BY OURSELVES! We haven’t gone away for a weekend - or even a night - in almost 5 years now….well, I take that back. We did go away for a…

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