Last weekend, I had a friend, who used to be a caterer, over for dinner.  We both have two kids and one picky eater each.  I thought, because he was a chef, he’d give me the ole “if you let them cook with you, chances are they will be more interested in what you are […]

Recently, I had a visit with a friend who put together a delicious cheese board. In fact, here it is:

You gotta love the camera phones! It’s like walking around with an extra cartridge for your memory. Anyway, I digress. My friend filled this lovely plate with aged Goudas, blue cheese, camembert […]

We are into our second week of summer vacation (and yes, it’s barely mid-June - summer seems to get longer and longer, which is good and bad…) and we have already had four picnic lunches. I am not talking beautiful picnic basket with cloth napkins, wine and fine cheeses but we’re going to the zoo […]

I was always afraid of backyard trampolines, frightened by stories of kids somehow breaking their arms.  I imagined my kids getting bounced off the trampoline and flung across the backyard.  Then, my next door neighbor got one and the inevitable happened-the 8 and 10 year old kids next door invited my 5 and 3 year […]

OK, so most people are done with their spring cleaning and I, sadly, am only on part 2 - oh well - slow and steady wins the race as they say. In any event, I had a spare hour or so this weekend and decided to tackle the kids’ rooms and the family room. I focused on […]

This weekend we dusted off the coals and fired up the grill like many Americans.  We were so excited to be out in our backyard for three days straight that we cooked up a storm.  My husband put on his grillmaster apron that I got him last year for Father’s Day, complete with a bottle […]

I have been a huge fan of Dr Alan Greene’s website, www.drgreene.com, ever since my child was a newborn and I was crazy with fear over her eczema. This was about 5 years ago and at the time, Dr Greene was doing something that I now realize was really revolutionary. He was offering […]

It started about a month or so ago. In casual conversation, or specific emails, friends starting making plans for their kids’ activities for the summer and asking me about my children. What was I planing for my kids? What camps were they doing, swim lessons, soccer teams, etc.? I had no idea and for some […]

We’ve been talking about kids and the bottle and kids and sleep, but how about potty training. We had to train both of my kids by age 3 because their pre-school wouldn’t let them come to school in diapers. I thought that was cruel when I first heard of the policy but apparently […]

My kids’ birthdays are in December, March and May, so the good news is our birthday parties are almost over for the year. The not-so-good news is that this Friday is the grand finale - my daughter’s eighth birthday party. Of course I’m half kidding. I love celebrating my children’s birthdays and seeing them have […]