I love to shop and I love sales. When I get a 40% off coupon at Ann Taylor Loft or a Friends and Family discount code at the Gap, I'm compelled to go and check it out. I don't want to miss a good deal. After [...]
I love to shop and I love sales. When I get a 40% off coupon at Ann Taylor Loft or a Friends and Family discount code at the Gap, I'm compelled to go and check it out. I don't want to miss a good deal. After [...]
My 11 year-old daughter recently concluded her second Peninsula Youth Theater (PYT) production, which was the beloved “Annie,” so I’ve been reflecting lately on what it is I love about youth theater. And there’s a lot to love.
In our family we love sports as well; [...]
Boo is screaming in frustration as she tears off the three layers of clothing I’ve just struggled her into. “I hate all that stuff! Why are you making me wear all these clothes? This is the worst day ever!” The temperature outside is dropping from a cool [...]
It all started last Christmas. We planned on hosting Christmas Eve at our Silicon Valley home. Three days before Christmas Eve, I came down with pneumonia. I was hell bent on hosting since I had already bought the food. The day before I had a 104 temperature and [...]
Last year if you told me I’d become accustomed--no, make that ADDICTED--to reading novels on a 3.5-inch screen that fits into the palm of my hand, I would have called you nuts.
But over the course of 6 months, I’ve probably ingested hundreds and thousands of [...]
Although people tend to give unsolicited opinions on parenting no matter what the situation, one piece of harmless and cute advice that people gave me regarding my oldest son is that kids on the spectrum tend to enjoy [...]
It was a fun filled evening in Palo Alto on Sunday, November 15, 2009 as the bloggers from Silicon Valley Moms Blog gathered for our holiday party. In addition to the live event, our twitter party was hopping over on @svmomsgroup.com #svmomschevy.
Sidney [...]This last week has been busy in the area of women's healthcare. From the abortion coverage -ban language in the health care reform bill to the new guidelines for mammograms that were released (pap smears too), women are probably a little confused. Are' [...]
Here we go, barreling full speed into the high calorie time of year, the time of baked bread, chocolate truffles and peppermint bark, of turkey and stuffing and...bet you thought I was going to rant about calories? Well - that too...no, it's the nasty little G' [...]
There has been an epidemic of head lice in my daughter's third grade classroom, and unfortunately she became the latest victim this weekend. She's fine now, but after all they have put me through, I find myself nurturing a deep-seeded hatred for lice.
Honestly, what possible [...]
Dear Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Usually, I sit on the sidelines and listen to infuriating discussions going on in the political arena from my couch. By nature, I am one to avoid conflict. I listen, try to make informed decisions and cast my vote each and [...]
I should have seen the clues. Going up the escalator of my local Macy's, I shared the ride with a dozen or so women, all toting armfuls of clothes. The store was abuzz. It was only 11am on a Tuesday morning and the parking lot was' [...]
Every parent knows what a Cool Parent point is, right?
You know, you earn Cool Parent points in those moments when your kids don’t think you’re a nerd, a geek, too bossy, or someone who is ruining your life.
You collect Cool Parent points when you do [...]
My kindergartner came home last week with a ton of information about water conservation. Apparently there had been a school assembly or something with folks from the water company. He was so excited to share his new knowledge about how to use less water. Don’t water [...]
Since this afternoon, when my daughter's soccer team played their final season game, I've been a bit off centered because of behavior I displayed behind the lines. What set my behavior off was an unbelievably obnoxious mother. She's one we've all seen on the field - [...]
Mid-day Saturday, my seven year old son sat in our living room defying me.
"I'm NOT going!"
"You don't know you don't want to go," I said. "This is going to be so cool -- it's a skateboard event!"
"Mom," my seven year old daughter [...]
Like most folks this year, money is tight at our house. We're not taking any lavish vacations or buying a Mercedes Benz and putting a big red bow in it to surprise daddy with it Christmas morning. (sigh, maybe next year...not!) This year I am doing' [...]
My daughter is in 5th grade. This is a big year for her. It is her last year in elementary school, it is the year that she will go away to outdoor school, and it is the year that she will learn about puberty during the [...]
I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about the stay at home mom and the working mom “jobs”. I’m sure there might be something in this post that will make someone angry. So let me say before I begin that I firmly believe that it’s a [...]
I joke that my kids are wild and wiggly little children. They have an abundant amount of en energy and I fantasize about moving to the middle of the woods and letting them run to their hearts content. But we like our cafes and Trader Joes [...]
"Did your kids get the shot? Where did you get it? Do they have more?"
"Are your kids high risk? Mine aren't, but I'm going to lie."
"Who's going to the county clinics?"
If you spot a group of moms huddled together outside school or [...]
SV MOMS GROUP TWITTER PARTY!!! Sunday, November 15, 2009 from 4 - 7 pm PST!
Join us as we give TONS of great stuff away - including a HP Photosmart Premium with Touchsmart Web All-in-One printer, a single-serve TASSIMO hot beverage system from Bosch, tickets to the [...]
Martha Stewart’s food guru, Lucinda Scala Quinn, suggests the way to get teens to the dinner table is to cook savory dishes. Apparently, the aromas and tastes should be so compelling, any teen would [...]
SILICON VALLEY MOMS GROUP HOLIDAY GUIDE - TWITTER PARTY
Entrants can start tweeting as soon as this post goes live and tweet multiple times. Starting at 4pm PST winners will be announced approximately every fifteen minutes. FOLLOW THE TWITTER ID @svmomsgroup to see who won the prizes and more fun announcements during [...]
As the mother of teens and tweens, it's a daily task to observe and reinforce good internet safety to my children. There was a time about ten years ago when my eldest daughter was eight years old and was on an internet site innocently chatting with someone who had' [...]
I pulled the princess cowgirl out of her car seat and slung her onto my hip. Then I slipped the princess witch's hand into mine and headed towards the back entrance of my new office.
The staff Halloween party marked the culmination of my first week' [...]
My son Gobez is a good kid: outgoing, helpful, cheerful and sweet. (Of course, even a truly nice boy might throw his sister's basketball onto the roof on purpose sometimes. Nobody's perfect.) He's also known as a good citizen at school. In first grade, when a' [...]
Both of my Grandpas were military men. Both grew up dirt poor in the rural South. Both knew what it felt like to go hungry. Both felt the military was the only option to pull themselves out of deep poverty.
My mom's dad, Skip, was a' [...]
It's 10:30 p.m. on a Thursday. My child is cozy in her bed, fast asleep. My husband is in the home office, working on family budgeting, writing some work emails, keeping an eye on SportsCenter. I am in the family den, sitting on the [...]
I'm lucky to have that rarest of treasures: two of them---who do the stuff everyone wants their kids to do:
Not losing sweaters and jackets.
Getting school permissions slips signed and turned in on time.
Not forgetting lunchboxes at home (okay, just once or twice)
Now they’re older– and they’ve' [...]
My daughter and her Kindergarten class were going on a field trip to the pumpkin patch. I was quite relaxed about this little adventure, but as the date of the field trip approached, I started to get nervous about the bus ride. Do they have seat-belts and car-seats [...]
Several months ago I appeared in an SV Moms A Byte Out of Life video along with fellow twin moms Linda and Akemi and discussed the pros and cons of separating our twins in elementary school. It has been almost 3 months now [...]
Have you taken a look at your grocery bill lately? I mean have you really broken down all your monthly expenses to figure out where you are spending the bulk of your money? Ya, well if you do - be prepared to be shocked.
How I [...]
Last summer at BlogHer I was invited to a lunch sponsored by Clorox Green Works. They had provided us with samples ahead of time to try out. At the lunch each table had a Clorox representative to answer any questions we might have [...]
I really dislike the term "empty nester." It conjures up images of a quasi grey haired couple who are looking out the window wistfully at the yard in which their children played. Of mothers who are clutching their kid's childhood pillowcase in a moment of melancholy.' [...]
Everyone’s heard of the Tooth Fairy. Maybe even the Sugarplum Fairy, of Nutcracker fame. Our household is starting to crowd up with fairies of all sorts. But...does it have to be filled with only the good ones?
I swear I’m going to hurl rainbows if I have [...]
Last week I cemented my reputation as Crappy Crocker, the Domestic Not-ess of baking. It started with an email from a nice mom who (I thought) was going to bake Halloween cookies for my daughter's class. She wanted to know how she [...]
Cross posted from our sister blog, DC Metro Moms Blog.
I grew up in a military family. My father was a career Air Force officer, as was his father. My brother joined the Army a few years after high school and served two tours in [...]
We've been to a lot of birthday parties recently. People snicker and talk about "New Years Babies," but it is true. Our schedules are more booked now than they will be the rest of the school year or next summer. Many of the parties we've attended [...]
We arrive, sign in and wait. I watch another mother with two children enter. The speech therapist comes out and takes her older boy in for his time to play and practice better speech...her youngest wants to go too, "your turn is later in the [...]
It’s been kind of a rough year of cancer diagnoses for those close to me, and I was inspired by WhyMommy’s wonderful post about How to Help a Friend. Many “chemo gift basket” ideas are very female centric, written for and by [...]
This year’s Halloween haul hit a new high for our family. In an effort to minimize the intake, I knew I was going to have to act quickly. I didn’t realize it was going to require a tactical assault.
Thinking I was awfully smart, I proposed [...]
Fat. The ugliest word I know. Unfortunately, one I know all too well.
It took me years of therapy to get over the fact that I wasn't born thin. Session after session I'd sit with my wide thighs half-crossed and wonder why God hated me so [...]
I am so angry and frustrated it is difficult to write. In fact, I've waited since October to write about this story because I am having difficulty absorbing the immensity of what happened to a 15 year-old Richmond girl. It sickens me' [...]
I have not yet tuned in to the CNN debate, but it seems everyone's talking about the woman who was taken off the plane when her cranky toddler would not stop crying. It's front page news, the columnists are taking sides, and it's all the' [...]
The Girl Scouts mission statement is: "Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place." I love the idea of the organization. I remember wanting to be a Girl Scout when I was growing up. I made it to Brownies [...]
One of the best things about being a parent is dwelling in the world of children. Take Halloween—yes, adults have fun dressing up and being goofballs, but nothing matches the sheer delight of trick-or-treating. Going “alone” to the doors of strangers’ houses at night (usually forbidden), [...]
My turn! My turn! Today, I led the first Art Vistas presentation for my girls’ Kindergarten class. It was so much fun! I have anticipated devoting time to my girls’ school for the last few years and it’s finally come around. I have such fond [...]
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