This is a sponsored post on behalf of Imagine Toys for the KaBOOM! Go Out and Play essentials pack, something that I think you’d want even if I weren’t being compensated. Which I am. *** Oh, pals, I kinda love telling everyone about fun and spectacular things that just EXIST in the world. Today’s little bit of fun n’ spectacular is the KaBOOM! Go Out and Play essentials pack. Some stuff you need to know: Kids’ unstructured playtime has diminished {Read More}
Superheroines At 20% Theatre Chicago’s Snapshots Festival!
August 28, 2014 By 4 Comments
Pals, I have a show opening tonight and I’m super thrilled about it. And yes, I agree that there has been a lot of self-promotion around these parts lately…but I hope you’ll forgive the need for a little personal acknowledgement that requires neither a She Wore THAT?! list nor a selfie featuring a Popeye arm and at least one angled nostril. Yes? We’re cool for the moment? I thank you. SO. Before I get into the specifics of this play {Read More}
A Giveaway For Expecting: A Year of Fixing Up And Breaking Down. Now In Nook Form, Too!
August 27, 2014 By 24 Comments
So, pretty sure by now you know I wrote a book called Expecting: A Year of Fixing Up and Breaking Down. (Hey, did you hear I wrote a book? I totally wrote a book.) But this is not idle braggery. (That’s another post.) No, today I get to give away a copy of aforementioned book to celebrate Expecting’s arrival on the scene as a Nook book at Barnes & Noble! Isn’t that wicked? Now everyone I’ve met over the summer/friends {Read More}
Why Parenting Is The Least Rational Job Ever.
August 25, 2014 By 6 Comments
Today Nora rode a bike. It wasn’t without training wheels and it wasn’t even the first time she had done so…but this time I really looked and saw and got it. In two short months she’ll be five years old. And in that short/long time, she’s figured out how to hold a spoon. Stand upright and move forward. Use a potty. Comb her hair. Clear a table. Talk like a semi-normal person on the phone. And- apparently- work the mechanics of {Read More}
My Best Friend Left Me. And I’m Pretending She Didn’t.
August 21, 2014 By 11 Comments
I’m a coward, I admit it. One of my best friends in the whole widest world moved away from Chicago over the weekend- and I was glad I wasn’t there. Lemme ‘splain. This friend, one Bethany Hart, has been my Gal Friday (or Gal Wednesday) each and every time I’ve brought a newborn home from the hospital. After the parade of mothers and sisters had returned home, B would show up on Wednesdays at breakfast, staying until P.J. arrived at {Read More}
Get The Behavior You Want…Without Being The Parent You Hate. (A Review, And Way Of Life.)
August 20, 2014 By 7 Comments
Disclaimer: I am not being paid to review this book. I am under no obligation to review this book. It just so happens that I love Dr. G as a person and respect the heck out of her as a family physician and all-around incredible advice-giver. Proceed. Get the Behavior You Want…Without Being the Parent You Hate. Sounds brilliant, right? But, depending on the day, it also sounds the teensiest bit impossible. (Right?) Friends, I am so stoked to have {Read More}
Eight Months Old. Lemme Tell You About My Childhood.
August 18, 2014 By 16 Comments
Dear Jasper, Tomorrow you’ll be a whopping eight months old. How the honkin’ what? Yesterday, we returned from our five week East Coast jaunt (of which you were a natural, no surprise there). We spent time in the Berkshires where you learned how to do clutch things like navigate a rotary (from the backseat) and consume copious amounts of (secondhand) ice cream. For the last week of the trip, we fetched your Dad from the airport and headed to Cape {Read More}
How To Be A Better Person With Netflix And The #StreamTeam.
August 14, 2014 By 1 Comment
August’s lineup for Netflix is all about kindness. As a #StreamTeam member, I’m thrilled to share what they’re sharing with ME about how to share with your littles…on the theme of sharing. (Success, you guys.) *** There are a whole lotta things that kids are going to learn- and that we want them to learn- in the new school year, but I’d like to argue that among the most important is how to exist in the world with kindness and awareness. (And maybe {Read More}
