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How Life Tricks You Into Having a Second Child
Life is sweet, right? Your 2.5 year old is going to the potty, learning to pick up toys, helping you with dinner, and now verbally telling you every day how much they love you. You and your spouse are in … Continue reading
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The Newest Trend in Playing: Celebrity Tag
Every once in while, we venture to the Upper East Side of Manhattan. This weekend it was for a toddler swim class at Asphalt Green. While membership at this club is astronomical for lowly Wash-Highers like us, their swim classes … Continue reading
Concrete Vs. Grass
Last weekend as my daughter picked up a fourth shard of green glass from some creavaces in a crop of exposed Manhattan bedrock in Central Park, I wondered really how much different it would be to be a parent in the … Continue reading
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Playground Season!
After a few weeks off from blogging due to an increased workload and a descent into the hellish depths of the last week of gray February (a time a year where I do nothing but eat pretzels and watch Intervention) … Continue reading
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Adventures with Jogging Strollers
Yeah. I’m that New Yorker you hate with the giant jogging stroller. You’ll see green peppers and oranges rolling across your path just before my black and red Baby Jogger smashes your toe in narrow produce isles at grocerias. Or, you’ll … Continue reading
Ghosts of Valentine’s Past
When my husband and I first started long-distance dating, a friend of ours played some Rufus Wainwright for us one sunny and crisp October weekend in NYC. For some reason we both loved this really cheesy love song on his … Continue reading
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If A Toddler Can Make it Here: They’re Probably Over-Booked but Happy
I am constantly amazed at how kid-friendly New York is turning out to be. When my husband and I decided to move back to Manhattan with a 9-month old from our spacious apartment in Chicago, I was terrified. The motherly … Continue reading
Makeup, Makeup, Makeup!
I’ve always been addicted to makeup, but when you have children, makeup becomes a goddamn necessity if you want to look like yourself anymore. While I’ve never been a classic beauty, I think I manage to at least look pretty … Continue reading
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Valentine’s Dinner Idea: Vermouth and Gruyere Reduction
This recipe is freaking delicious and pretty much an original. I did use some help from this book when it came to cooking the beef, How To Cook Everything. (It’s like a modern Joy of Cooking.) For this dish, you’ll … Continue reading
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For New Mothers Freaking on What To Buy For Baby
Things I wish I would have bought by now Cup holder for stroller – If you drink coffee BUY THIS. Fur hand muffs for stroller – You try to remember gloves while your toddler screams “No Thank You!” every time you … Continue reading
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