Did you grow up with a pet? We had a cat growing up, and I always thought it was important…

April 1, 2015

The Bay Area Discovery Museum is free every first Wednesday of the month….which is tomorrow! We just went this past…

March 31, 2015

You know that moment in the Marketplace when you start getting a little light headed and confused? Things are going…

March 30, 2015

Not only is this trick useful, but it’s scientifically proven! Well, I think it is. Dave and I started implementing…

March 30, 2015

How was your week? We spent the week getting re-acclimated to San Francisco after a couple weeks traveling off and…

March 27, 2015

Ever since Bean started walking, one of our favorite things to do is go on a toddler-led hike. Toddlers have…

March 26, 2015

We are having a bit of a heat wave in San Francisco, while the East Coast is bracing yet again…

March 26, 2015

I’ve been making my way through “At Home: A Short History of Private Life” by Bill Bryson this past month,…

March 25, 2015

Well, this perhaps breaks down better into two parts. 1) Using cloth diapers isn’t really that hard. 2) Using cloth…

March 25, 2015

A friend is working her way through Marie Kondo’s book and so I’ve recently had a lot of conversations about…

March 24, 2015

In part of my parenting quest to focus on calm in order to reduce The Toddler Chaos, I stumbled onto…

March 24, 2015

Whenever a friend newly relocates to San Francisco (this happens more often than you’d think), I send them a series of…

March 23, 2015

And now it’s my turn! The week before, I brought you time charts showing how mothers staying at home with…

March 23, 2015

It was very sweet of me yesterday to think this cold/flu might be limited to the toddler. All those times she…

March 13, 2015

Hi all. I’ve got a kid with a fever, no interest in sleep (naps or overnight, apparently), and too many other…

March 12, 2015

There’s nothing like getting proven wrong about a city. I had been to Portland before and surely we’ve all seen…

March 11, 2015