Mommy Stuff

Your Spa at Home: Rene Furterer Shampoo

February 5, 2012
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Things I yearn to say: “I’m sorry, I can’t go, I’m washing my hair.” I also long for ways to feel relaxed and pampered on a daily basis. Small things throughout the day, nothing big and special like a day at the spa. Oh, if only! But time and money prohibit such indulgences, don’t they? [...]

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Always Playing Catch-Up? Stay on Task!

February 4, 2012
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I’m notorious for always playing catch-up. If it’s not on work, it’s on sleep, bills, exercise…you name it. I even have to play catch-up with my book club sometimes! Argh. It’s aggravating and stressful. But with the new year, I made a commitment to get my catch-up pile caught-up and to make it a new [...]

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How Far Would You Go to Get Your Kid Into Private School?

February 2, 2012
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As many of you know, we don’t live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. We don’t live in an exclusive neighborhood in San Francisco. We live in Portland, Maine. Now, that’s not to say that we don’t have our fair share of challenges within the school system. As with every other state, the budget [...]

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Spring Looks at Target

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 [...]

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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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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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Oh, What a Relief

January 17, 2012
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Jonathan Adler, who was once told that he should just give up pottery already – by his professor, no less – clearly isn’t a good listener. And good thing! He’s come out with yet another line of pottery that I can’t take my eyes off: the Relief collection. Inspired by Mother Earth, and really, what [...]

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Quick Cheese Sauce

January 17, 2012
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For most moms a quick cheese sauce is easy: Kraft. Open packet. Add milk. Done. But! There is another way. Something *almost* as quick and infinitely yummier and healthier. Though, we’re talking cheese sauce so I use the term ‘healthy’ loosely. I thought of this – well, I’m lying, my sister-in-law thought of this – [...]

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Dealing with the Prickly Angries

January 13, 2012
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I used to think that the definition of insanity was doing things over and over and expecting a different result. Come to find out I was wrong. Actually, it’s the definition of parenting. See, I keep having these expectations. That’s my down fall. I expect in terms of outcomes. I expect that my older daughter [...]

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5 Tips to Photograph Infants

January 12, 2012
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Cooochichooochicoooooo. Truth be told, it’s not hard to photograph babies. They are always so, so, so cute. But it is hard to take a GOOD picture of babies, what with all their moving, squirming, and drive-by smiles. You’ve got to be on your toes! Here are few tricks

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