Isabella Oliver Maternity

by kate on January 27, 2012

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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.

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Transform, Even Little Things

by kate on January 27, 2012

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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.

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Spring Looks at Target

by kate on January 26, 2012

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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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Walk To School

by kate on January 26, 2012

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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.

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Teaching Your Child Character: Zest

January 25, 2012
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Character teaching time. Today it’s all about zest! Zeal! Joie de vivre! OK, enough with the (!) exclamation points! Let me back up and say this is all based on a character report card developed by KIPP’s and Riverdale Country School in New York City that I learned about from the New York Times. A [...]

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How Our Body Image Is Ruining Our Girls

January 24, 2012
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Note: As much as I’d like this post to be a tangent on a certain television show that exploits children’s self-images for the sake of beauty pageants, I won’t. But that might be coming later down the line…now back to your previously scheduled programming. ********************** I like to think that I’ve got a pretty healthy [...]

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Fashion Up: Get Your Sunglasses On

January 23, 2012
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This just in from the fashion people: color, color, color. Have you seen the new neon? It’s everywhere. Pink. Green. Orange. Just SCREAMING AT YOU. Peruse J Crew‘s new arrivals and, if you’re my age, you’ll start singing the Thompson Twins or Spandau Ballet what for all the 80s influence. At least color wise. That [...]

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Your Child’s First Dentist Visit

January 23, 2012
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Another milestone has passed – proof that you can’t keep your baby from growing up: the first dental exam. I don’t know if we were early or late with it, but we scheduled our younger daughter’s first visit to the dentist just after her 2nd birthday. We’ve been brushing her teeth (I should really say [...]

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Why Adult Ed Deserves a Second Look

January 20, 2012
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When’s the last time you were in school? For some of us, it was recent…maybe we got married and had babies in the middle of our college careers and went back after the kids were in school. For others of us, it’s been a while. We finished up college, then decided to work for a [...]

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Story Time

January 19, 2012
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Tell me, do you tell stories to your kids? I mean off the cuff, from memory, stumble around making a wordy fool of yourself stories without the aid of a book or TV? It’s super hard. Super. Hard. When my older daughter was 2 and just became a big sister, she stopped eating. Not in [...]

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Beauty Quick Fixes

January 19, 2012
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By now we’ve probably all heard about dry shampoo and the minutes it saves us when we are looking a little more greasy than glam, but did you know about the off-label genius of baby wipes, your hair iron or a sharpie? Neither did I. Of course, I do know that baby wipes are amazing [...]

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Golden Globe Fashion Trend Alert

January 18, 2012
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In a word: glamorous. But since ‘glamor’ and ‘mom’ usually are mutually exclusive, that’s not what I’m talking about. I know, I know, all moms can be (and should be!) considered glamorous just by being us. Right? Right? Whatever. The real world knows differently. But, one of the cool things we can take home after [...]

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Home Gawking, J. Crew Style

January 18, 2012
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Ahh, the one that got away. Gorgeous home, with a backyard. Simple, elegant, all done in neutrals with pops of color. Unfortunately, I’ve found it AFTER it’s been snapped up by some lucky buyer. Oh, and I don’t live in New York. Oh, AND, I don’t have $3.75 million. But still…it feels like the house [...]

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