by kate on January 27, 2012
Thank you Isabella Oliver for making maternity clothes look like real clothes! Now I wish I were pregnant just so I could wear these. You know the maternity line is good if even a non-preggers woman wants the look.
Here are my top many choices: [click to continue…]
by kate on January 27, 2012
OK, time for a mental health break. A good friend once tried to convince me that the bad things that happen in life are just information. Information. Simple really. Something to allow you to think on and then decide which way to go.
Where I get all tight and anxious, she sees the opportunity to learn. I try to remember that when I’m stuck, when I’m scared, when I’m in need of some inspiration…all the world is information. But do you do something with that information? That’s the rub.
Sometimes growth and change can be so unknown, [click to continue…]
by kate on January 26, 2012
In the midst of this winter greyness, it’s refreshing to see bright spring dresses at Target. I was just looking at the Jason Wu line at Target – Woot!
Yes, Jason Wu, who shot to stardom after dressing the First Lady for the Inaugural Ball has a Target line. I love how a designer is now considered BIG TIME when they create a look for big box stores. Remember when it was the other way around…ala Jacqueline Smith?
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by kate on January 26, 2012
Do you let your child walk to school? Alone? I don’t but, in my defense, my girl is 4 so she’s not exactly developmentally ready. Not yet anyway. Though I’m not sure I would regardless.
I was listening to a preschool director give a talk about her school and she brought up a point that I found interesting. Not many, if any, of her school children ride their bikes or walk to school anymore. It’s too dangerous. And the school is in Sausalito, CA, so not exactly the ‘hood, if you know what I mean.
The interesting point wasn’t in the danger of it. She asked us parents [click to continue…]