We say it's crazy. We lament the waste, the pure commercial excess of it. We pretend we don't even want it. But secretly, and yes I'm including you, we love the swag. The shiny new packaging. The unexpected bounty. The tubes and pots and bags and cellophane and ribbons … [Read more...]
Snakes On a Mom! On a Plane!
Okay so that's a bad play on a film title but it got your attention. I'm putting the final things into the ol' bags right now for our trip to the east coast. If you are going to BlogHer 2010 and you'd like to come say hello to me, I'll be manning the Huggies Every Little Bottom … [Read more...]
EWWW. And, Please Help
From Environmental Working Group: "BABIES ARE BORN PRE-POLLUTED WITH 100′s OF TOXIC CHEMICALS. OUR BROKEN TOXICS LAW IS FAILING THEM. WE NEED YOUR HELP TO CHANGE THAT. EWG tested the umbilical cord blood of 10 newborn babies and found nearly 300 chemicals, including … [Read more...]
Not Ready For My Closeup
This was an original post for LA Moms Blog on July 13, 2008. Sadly, the SV Moms Group has shut ‘er down, so I’ll be posting my archives here every Friday. I’m new around here, so I’m feeling like a bit of a joiner. I eagerly scour every email from the blogging community … [Read more...]
Eight
Well, eight years plus one month. That is how long Stewart and I have been married. It seems impossible that eight whole years have gone by since that one day fraught with stress (8,573 things to do) and triumph (we pulled off the party of a lifetime). And since then there's … [Read more...]