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fall. beauties.

It was cold today, but that didn’t stop us from taking a pre-dinner walk outside. My plan was to leave the house while it was still light out and be…

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Letter to Bunny and Wallie before Election Day

Dear Bunny and Wallie, For the past year, your Mamma has been living and breathing politics trying very hard–along with other mothers (your blogger aunties)–to do everything we can to…

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Now for something a little less silly, talking about fire safety with kids

A couple of weeks ago it was Fire Prevention week, and because she’d been studying about it at school, Bunny came home everyday and shared her knowledge with us. I…

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Family Closed: Will return on Monday

This week I’ve been thinking a lot about how precious the time that my family spends together as a whole family is. We rarely eat dinner together during the week…

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Meal Planning Monday for 10/13/08

It’s staying cooler for just a little bit longer every day so I think we may finally be leaving this Indian summer behind. That, plus the fact that we are…

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Eating from one end of San Francisco to the other

I took a much needed break from the norm today and headed to San Francisco with my mom and the girls. We went to the Rotunda at Neiman-Marcus for lunch…

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The Allergic Child: Questions for parents of children with allergies

Wallie’s most recent doctor visit sure was a doozy. Not only was the end-result glasses she has to wear every day, but we confirmed something we already know: she’s a…

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Wallie is (gasp) 4!

Recently we celebrated Wallie’s 4th birthday with a pink princess-palooza party at home. She wanted to dress up in something meringue-esque, wear sparkly shoes, and have Cinderella visit, and, really,…

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Cooking with Kids: Thin Crust Pizza

Bunny was delighted to learn that her new first first grade teacher was known throughout her school as “The Cooking Teacher.” Never mind that her school has all sorts of…

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The saga of the swimming lessons

Here’s the thing that frustrates me about large group lessons (more than 4 kids): kids spend most of their time waiting around to do the strokes or whatever rather than…

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I can do what I do because my kids are my kids

I watched Michelle Obama discussing the Women and Families Blue Print (I swear this isn’t a political post), and as she talked about how much women have to juggle in…

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Kaimana Beach Memories, Old and New

My girls are sun-kissed from playing on the beach in Honolulu, the same beaches I used to play on when I was their age. Their curly hair is full of…

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Party crasher

Sometimes it sucks to be the number two kid. I feel for Wallie sometimes, I really do. On Saturday Bunny was invited to two birthday parties. J. was off helping…

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History was made tonight…

by a very determined and focused individual. By an impassioned and articulate orator. By someone who often struggles to be heard, but never gives up the fight: My three-year-old. Tonight…

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