Mom Life

The moment my son arrived it hit me. Suddenly I was immediately on-call, all-the-time breastfeeding, changing diapers, and comforting my little bundle of joy. I didn’t realize that my new “boss” would trigger an identity crisis that would change...

About once or twice a year, I meet up with a group of friends at various local spas for a luxurious morning of pampering. Our ultimate- and ambitious- goal is to visit every luxury spa in the Bay Area...

Mid-Peninsula Moms Blog is officially one year old! We've had so much fun this past year building our community of local moms, and we want to keep growing so we can bring you even more insightful and relatable articles,...

  June is the beginning of summer, BBQs, and sandals. And it's time for the annual celebration of dads—I'm not talking about a bad joke competition or socks and sandals fashion show but Father’s Day. Now, Father's Day may still include...

If you’re anything like me, you have approximately 4,392 videos of your kids on your phone. Not only are these clips hogging precious storage space, but how often do you really go back and watch that one clip from...

Cooking healthy and delicious meals takes time. Even a meal that only needs 30 minutes to cook requires us to plan what to make in the first place, to buy the ingredients, prep them, cook them, and clean up....

These days it is not difficult to bring joy into my life. When I see flowers blooming on the streets, ocean waves curling by my feet and my baby girl laughing at my silly faces - I can feel...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEjmcO5f_uc&feature=youtu.be We recently sat down with Lynne Azarchi, Executive Director of Kidsbridge Tolerance Center and author of THE EMPATHY ADVANTAGE. One statement she said really stood out; “racism is learned early; by the age of three, children accept racism and...

Not too long ago I was at a park with my daughter when a fellow mom had a bad accident coming down the slide with her two boys. Her leg snapped and she was immobilized on the ground, crying...

It took having three kids for me to discover that there’s a wrong way to feed your baby – and that I’d totally screwed it up the first two times. I don’t mean breast milk versus formula, on-demand versus interval-based...