Happy Mother’s Day to all of the amazing moms out there! We just received a fun Mother’s Day delivery a few minutes ago. My husband nominated me for Saint Cupcake’s Top Mom…and they chose his entry! You can read my hubby’s sweet words on the Saint Cupcake blog. I snagged a good guy, eh? Check [...]
Summer is coming to Portland. Today’s sunshine nudged Portlanders outside to embrace the warmth and promise of a sunny Saturday. Our garden is starting to bloom. We have strawberries, carrots, beans, garlic, tomatoes, mesclun, parsley, rosemary, chives. Do you have a summer garden? What do you typically plant for summer crops? Our kids played in [...]
One of the greatest gifts of being a mother, in my personal experience, is watching your child in the process of discovery, to watch them embark on new experiences for the first time. Earlier this week, I had the good fortune of being invited to a media event for Cirque du Soleil’s OVO show. I [...]
When you manage a team of women — and more specifically, moms — who work from home, I believe it’s important to periodically gather up the troops and do some fun team building. Not the corporate conference room, hire a boring guest speaker type of team building, but treating moms to an experience they wouldn’t [...]
Sunny Saturday in Portland: worked this morning… went to a nearby farm where we got seeds & herbs for spring planting, the kids got to play with the chickens and goats (and barn cat), hubby & I enjoyed a tasting of Provincial Vineyards wine and took home a bottle of their lovely 2010 Single Vineyard [...]
Several months ago, my then-4-year-old daughter declared she’d like a Princess Party. We were only inviting girls, and the colors were to be bright pink, orange, and blue. Easy peasy, right? Then right before I was about to send out her invitations, she decided she wanted to invite the boys in her class (or, rather, [...]
My daughter’s 4th birthday theme — butterflies — last year was quite fitting for the year ahead. In the past year, she has truly blossomed into this little person, transforming from my baby girl into this kid with big kid vocabulary, incredible reading skills, legs too long for jeans in her usual size, spot-on sarcasm, [...]
We moms are often the last to forgive ourselves, aren’t we? We are laden with guilt, heavy with “if only I had done this” and “I shouldn’t have said that.” We live in the no-win zone daily, and we reserve the harshest judgment for ourselves. But if our kids forgive us so easily, so too [...]
I truly believe that each person we meet, we meet for a reason: whether they are brought into our lives to inspire us, to teach us something about ourselves, to give us new perspective, to challenge our comfort zone, or even just to make us smile when we didn’t realize we were frowning. Marisa and [...]
Inefficiency drives me bonkers. I hate wasting time. Yet, there seems to be this thriving illusion in this culture that if we meet more, email more, create more spreadsheets, discuss and strategize more, we get more done. Wrong! Meanwhile, all I can think of during the meeting, discussing, emailing, strategizing is this: I could have [...]
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