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December 16th, 2008 — Alix, MS, Phyllis Seidman, SV Moms, Silico Valley Moms Blog, accident from Alix @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
I’m disturbed. The story of Phyllis Seidman, who was hit by a car only blocks from my house, haunts me. Maybe it’s because the woman was wheel-chair bound due to MS. Maybe it’s because my kids and I ride our…
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November 26th, 2008 — Alix, SV Moms, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, organic, thanksgiving, turkey from Alix @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
My husband is massaging Kosher salt into the glistening skin of a raw turkey. He’s balancing it on our granite kitchen counter on what used to be the dead gobbler’s head. It’s the Sunday before Thanksgiving. He looks up at…
Online StoresNovember 9th, 2008 — Alix, SV Moms, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, Trick-or-Treat, fainting, halloween, pasing out, scare from Alix @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
On Halloween night, my kids and I approached the final target in our forty-house candy shake-down. Their goal was to get one last treat, mine was to be friendly with the neighbor. Earlier that night in a courtyard, teenagers dressed…
November 2nd, 2008 — Alix, Biden, McCain, Palin, debate, election, election day, kids, obama, parenting, voting from Alix @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
According to my son’s picture on the left, Obama (”OBomaE”) is going to win with 59% of the vote “because everyone at school is voting for Obama.” Illustrated in the audience of voters who are raising their hands are “two…
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October 22nd, 2008 — Alix from Alix @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
As I walked my kinder twins to school last year, I was proud they were greeting lots of “graders.” (Anyone older than kinder, in case you are not up on kinder lingo.) As we approached campus, a first grade boy…
October 3rd, 2008 — Alix, Food Pyramid, SV Moms, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, Snacker Tracker, Walter Willett, glycemic index, nutrient-dense foods, nutrition, wheat from Alix @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
This nutritionist mom was excited about a new product called the Snacker Tracker, that is, until I used the magnetic wipe-board to mark how many fruits, vegetables, dairy, protein and grains my kids ate in a day. Day one, I…
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September 9th, 2008 — Alix, RipStick, SV Moms, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, mothering, parenting, skate park, skateboard from Alix @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
Helmet-less boys soar twenty feet in the air. A trick biker skids eight feet on his shoulder blade, stopping inches from my feet, while his bike careens in another direction. He yells, “F***!” I imagine the road rash under his…
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July 14th, 2008 — Alix, American Academy of Pediatrics, Lipitor, SV Moms, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, statins from Alix @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
I am outraged that pediatricians will now prescribe statin drugs to children as young as eight. When I first read this news, I thought it was a parody of American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines, but I was wrong. There is…
Online StoresJuly 10th, 2008 — Alix, SV Moms, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, gas prices, oil, renewable energy from Alix @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
“Hey, guys, let’s read this book about oil!” “No, mom, I wanna read the otter book,” said my six-year old daughter, who wants to be a zookeeper when she grows up. “Really, you guys, don’t you want to know more…
Online StoresJuly 2nd, 2008 — Alix, SV Moms, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, children, kids, parenting from Alix @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
Necessity may be accepted as the mother of invention, but I say Mothers are the mother of invention. For example, think of all the messes you’ve cleaned up without your trusty Mr. Clean Magic Eraser or without a paper towel…
Online StoresJune 13th, 2008 — Alix, Ano Nuevo, SV Moms Blog, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, elephant seals, parenting from Alix @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
“Are they still killing elephant seals today?” asked the recent college grad as the ocean wind lifted up her tightly secured ponytail like a cocker spaniel’s ear sticking out of a car window. Other than the blond hair, she looked…
Online StoresJune 6th, 2008 — Alix, SV Moms, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, Television, TiVo from Alix @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
My six year old son, Guy-Guy, learned to read from the television. That’s kinda white trash. I wish I could say he learned from his teacher or Sesame Street or ANY show on PBS, but it was lower than that….
Online StoresMay 29th, 2008 — Alix, Carbon offsets, Environment, SV Moms Blog, Silicon Valley Moms Blog from Alix @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
A woman handed me a giant bottle of wine at my doorstep the other night. I was panicked. The woman is the development director for Acterra, an environmental organization we love and support. Acterra does home energy audits, but that’s…
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