I am asked by moms often about age appropriate gifts for their little ones so I decided to put together gift guides by age! Here is the first one for your baby’s first birthday! Besides a medal for making it through your first year, feel free to pass along this list to anyone who might want to buy your baby a present but might not know what to get! Any and all of these actually get used and provide hours of entertainment. The one thing to remember is that even “educational” toys don’t actually teach your child…you do. So while we want our children to play well independently, make sure you’re ...
Do you Konmari?
As moms, we have a lot of STUFF! It's tough to find a place for it all and even if you do, best of luck keeping it there with toddlers! Meet one of my best friends, Merav, whom I met in MY mommy and me class when my first was 8 weeks old. I have a long list of things I love and appreciate about her, one of which is her motivation to always be better. We share that self-reflection gene which has provided many great and long conversations about how to do it. I feel I'm a better person for knowing her partly due to her constant support and cheerleading! She recently wrote a post about the ...
Here’s to you, Mom!
When I read the article circulating this week about not understanding what our moms went through until we had kids of our own, it reminded me once again how true this was. The author did a great job putting into words how many of us feel once our babies are born. You can never understand what our parents go through until we are a parent ourselves. My parents were divorced when I was 11 months old and my brother was 4. Since I was so young, I have no recollection of them ever being together which I’m thinking was probably a good thing. Needless to say, my mom had her hands full. She was ...
