I’ve come to terms that I’m never going to be a distance runner, but I love running as part of a HIIT cardio workout. Coached runs have really pushed me past what I could ever do myself and I’m even planning to try some 5Ks in the future. 

Loves them, is picky about them, and is pretty good about putting them on by herself because daycare pushes it. Also, her feet don’t really grow so we’re still wearing the same shoes from a year ago. She’s almost 4 and she still wears a toddler 5 or 6.

We don’t leave the shoes in the car but I try to keep a spare pair in the diaper bag and in their personal backpack that they take to daycare. We had a scary situation last year with a standoff next door that resulted in us getting ushered out of our home at 4AM. The toddler was smart enough to say “do I need shoes?”…

Is it really wasting money for my kid to have a pair or two of sneakers and some dressier shoes? I buy them mostly at consignment sales and then sell them again anyway if they’re in decent condition still.

Uncrustables are great, they keep in the jelly so little hands stay cleaner.

They are great for trips to the zoo or aquarium and the crimping helps to keep everything inside the sandwich.

I don’t know if I can handle any of it anymore. I get a little queasy on the swings at the park.

I miss Kings Island so much. It was only about 30 minutes from my house if you knew the right back roads. Now I’ve got Knott’s Berry Farm and Six Flags Magic Mountain and Disneyland but they are all so pricey. And my husband’s vertigo means he has to watch me ride the big ones which is just no fun. Can’t wait till my…

We got mirrors for the backseat headrest that work great. I can see both rear facing kids. My 3.5 year old was forward facing for a bit but she missed being able to see herself in that mirror and wanted to rear face again. 

I can definitely relate to this one, I appreciate that they were able to move closer to family. I wish that were an option for us. My husband and I have also started tag teaming on the weekends for our similarly aged little ones. He’ll take them out on Saturday morning and I’ll do the same on Sunday morning. And then…

hahahaha, I’m not leaving stuff out for the cats to destroy overnight. And breakfast for my littles is ripping open a pack of mini muffins and handing them a sippy of milk. Which they eat while watching Bubble Guppies or Team Umizoomi and I go take a shower. I might not be winning at “momming” but I’m cool with that.

I HATE baby sizing. Every company is slightly different and some use a range but others use a single number. Baby Gap has clothes that they call 6-12 months, which means somewhere in that range (with a 3 month gap on either end) the clothes will actually fit. I thought women’s jeans were bad. Carter’s runs small,…

I think it’s partially for the baby while mom is gone but it’s also because mom is still pumping while traveling and it’s a pain to try to bring all that milk back with you and keep it cold the whole time. I mean, if you’re gone five days you might pump between 100 and 150 ounces, so at least 25 little bags of milk…

I probably followed the blogs of too many crunchy granola mamas when I was cloth diapering, but they all recommended it for cradle cap so I bought a jar. I guess I didn’t do it right because both kids still have it (3.5 and almost 2) but I pulled it out again to make dairy-free rice krispie treats. They were just…

I think they’re turning up the “comedy” aspect of the book but it’s HBO so comedy can mean a lot of things. The book is mostly about a bored divorced empty nester that starts watching MILF porn and her douchebag son that just started his freshman year of college away from home. She can do a lot with the character and…

Other libraries do it too, I was checking out the options for Los Angeles County recently. I think it’s a lot of the same options as the Smithsonian day. But I also learned from clicking through that the African American museum in Los Angeles is always free admission. We’re members of the Natural History Museum that’s…

A private school of their choosing? Which may or may not be located near their home (so there’s the added cost of transportation, plus in less urban areas they have no public transportation options so parents must spend extra time to get the kids there at the appropriate time and picked up at the same time). And may…

I can’t imagine how awful this must have been for both mother and child. A 11 month old probably still nurses 6 to 8 times a day. The pain of suddenly weaning that child who may have never had milk any other way (bottle or cup) and the pain for the mother to suddenly stop nursing. Most 11 month olds haven’t even been…

Yeah, they’re really great in concert most of the time. I’ve seen them in tiny venues and in huge venues, including a couple weeks ago at the Forum in Los Angeles. And they played a couple of my favorite Pinkerton tracks including El Scorcho. But man, did that crowd make me really feel like I’ll be 40 later this year.…

You’re right, 19 isn’t that many. I’ve seen Weezer 14 or 15 times, including when I was 8 months pregnant. The better question is, why does Fenway make it better? Wouldn’t a small show be more worth the effort? I’m sure PJ will come to NYC sometime soon.