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Mother Dear sent me the story below in an email this morning. I couldn't resist posting it. To know Mother Dear is to love her. She has a million rules…no tv, no juice, no McDonalds..her little Goose has some rules too, namely challenge Mother Dear in every way possible. I actually took Goose to Max Brenner's restaurant for brunch with her friend Jamie, where I ordered her a wonderful stack of chocolate pancakes which she […]

I want to stop. I do. I truly do. I want to hear her cry from that crib and leave her in there to cry, but my heart intervenes every single night.  Gracen has not slept one full night in her crib since she was born. She has slept next to Matt and I in our bed, like a constant and persistent little gate keeper. Depending on her mood we sleep well, or we don't […]

I have a best friend who should be a professor and published author, instead she's a corporate attorney, go figure…In any case this best friend who we shall call Mother Dear is the"Mama" to my favorite 2 year old, who we shall call Goose.  You'll see Mother Dear's post here as often as possible. She's fabulous, single, and a mother; yep the total package! So, I have less than 24 hours left to create a […]

I do not bake. Correction I bake one cake. It's my "go-to" cake. It's delicious and refreshing, and one of the greatest things I've ever eaten. I'd love to pass this off as a family recipe but I come from a long line of non bakers, we stick with the pros when it comes to baking. This one just happens to be the Barefoot Contessa's recipe and it's worth every bite. I made one over […]

We had a camera when I was pregnant. A pink Sony Cyber- Shot, it was fine but we wanted better. At the time we were taking weekly photos of my expanding belly and noticing that while cute" and "functional"  it didn't give us that HD we might be professional photographers and you just don't know it yet flavor.     So as a "so sorry you're still pregnant and carrying our child, and unable to […]