Four years ago, I took a huge leap of faith and joined the City Moms Blog Network, now City Mom Collective, to connect and support local moms in San Francisco and on the SF Peninsula. It has been a...
I recently listened to and loved the novel Girl Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis. She’s funny, enduring, poignant, and straight-up real.
One of the chapters in her book that really stuck with me was the one where she was...
Every year, when the kids go back to school, teachers have them draw, write and discuss what they did on their summer vacations. Since no one seems too interested in asking the mommas how their summer went, I thought...
Me: No, I don’t have a perm. My hair is naturally curly.
Every Other Person: Do you know how many people pay good money to have curls like that?
I have lived this conversation my whole life, many times, and not...
In a world where everyone's striving to be perfect all the time, I've decided to embrace my flaws. Here are ten things I do on a regular basis that are definitely not something to brag about but are part...
It’s September. School has started again, which means the amount of illness-producing germs circulating around my house have multiplied tenfold. With a daughter in second grade and a son in preschool, it’s not my first rodeo with the back...
I grew up calling my friends' parents Mr. and Mrs., and I called our close family friends Aunt and Uncle, but if a kid called me Mrs. Lang today, I would turn around and look for my mother-in-law. No...
This post is in partnership with The Escape Game.
We are always looking for things to do with our teenagers and an opportunity to go to The Escape Game near Fisherman's Wharf was the perfect chance to show them that we are...
Sleep training, or sleep teaching, as I prefer to call it, includes learning how long your child can comfortably stay awake between naps and before bed by age because timing sets you and your child up for success. Sleep...
We all remember “Stop, Drop and Roll” from our elementary school years, but how much do we actually know about basic fire safety in our homes?
As someone who started a fire in my own kitchen recently, I learned...