It was a bright October morning when I awoke to the call that I had known with certainty would come, ever since her diagnosis six months prior: my mom had died. She had a history of high blood pressure...
Here’s a fun idea to try the night you go Trick or Treating with your kids—host a Halloween potluck! When Halloween falls on a weekday, the day gets really hectic. We spend the day working, running around with the...
Halloween is around the corner! Scroll below to pick a pumpkin patch to visit on The Peninsula or in the South Bay. Go to San Francisco Moms Blog to check out the list of pumpkin patches in the City, Marin, and...
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...
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...
We. Are. All. The. Same.
We want our kids to thrive, to be happy, to be healthy. We all make different choices about how our kids are born, how we feed them, how much screen time they have, where...
My parents always told me that I took after my grandmother. She used to babysit me two days a week, and I was her alarm clock. My arrival was her cue to get out of bed, and once she...
My mom passed away in October 2016, when my kids were just 3 and 1.5 years old. They didn’t get to know her very well during the short span that they all inhabited the world together, since my mom...
I went to a small liberal arts college in Michigan with 1,600 students that had a robust Greek life: six sororities and six fraternities. Joining a sorority was not on my radar and was not a reason I chose...
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