I am used to being the best. Or at least always striving for it! I was a straight-A student, a high-level gymnast, and a world-class acrobat. Give me a goal and I’ll find a way to reach it. Six years...
The holidays are a special time to create and cherish family traditions. Both you and your spouse likely have your own family traditions from childhood that you want to carry on. You get to pick what family memories mean...
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Throughout the year, the writers from San Francisco and Mid-Peninsula Moms Blogs gather in person at various events, but my favorite time to get together is the holiday party because we get to give...
The chase was intensifying. Two kindergarten boys (my son and a friend from school) were in pursuit of my four-year-old daughter with plastic lightsabers, while she sported a combination of Star Wars/Knight/Pirate attire and sprinted around our backyard.
Suddenly, a...
Sesame Street Live! Let's Party! is coming to the City National Civic theater January 19-20 with two shows each day, 11:00 am and 3:00 pm.
We went to the show the last time it was in town, and it was...
If you haven't watched Saturday Night Live's "Best Christmas Ever" sketch, stop everything and press play below.
Not convinced? There is something for everyone in this skit, and it's absolute perfection: late night toy assembly, early Christmas morning wakeups, annoying...
My husband and I both grew up on the East Coast and that’s where all our family still lives. Even when we lived within driving distance to both our families, holidays were tricky. When we lived in Connecticut, we’d...
Did you guys know that the Grinch doesn’t live in Whoville? He actually resides deep down inside each one of us, and he rears his mean, grumpy head whenever he is triggered by holiday stress.
I witness this transformation...
The hardest part of Christmas for me when I was little was having to wait to open my gifts. We had to wait for my parents to wake up before we could open Santa's gifts Christmas morning and during...
Every year, we’ve created handmade (or sometimes… foot-made) Christmas gifts for the grandparents. And, I’ll admit, in part because I wanted a cute keepsake decoration, too! For weeks, I scour blogs and Pinterest for the most adorable holiday crafts,...
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