It was a good week for my family as we learned our daughter got assigned to our first choice of public kindergartens in San Francisco! If you're not familiar with the process, it's overwhelming, so we're grateful and relieved to...
I had a big cry today. Crying isn’t exactly a rare occurrence for me, but today was different. I felt despondent and helpless. It felt like all the sorrow that has befallen my friends, family, and community hit me...
Your baby is finally sleeping well, but are you? Many parents struggle with sleeplessness themselves. Often we never had the greatest sleep habits, but we didn’t notice until we became parents. Sleep feels so much more vital to our...
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Hopefully, you've been following along with our Mommy Madness Tournament, a fun take on college basketball's March Madness. If not, we have two words for you: Burke Williams. Every time you vote in...
In my three and a half years of being a mom, I’ve said the Mean Girls quote, “I’m not, like, a regular mom; I’m a cool mom,” more than once. I think most of us want to be that...
Most women I know feel that the split of managing household tasks is. . . unbalanced between their partners and themselves. A recent article in The Washington Post backs up that feeling with these statistics: “Employed women partnered with...
Tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day! This isn't a big holiday for me, but it's always fun to have a reason to crack open a Guinness and wear green. Do you go all out for the holiday, setting up leprechaun visits,...
Many of us love to run for fitness and stress relief, but we don’t always have a ton of time. So when we do, we really want the run to be spectacular. It can be hard to find a...
It's March Madness, the annual tournament to whittle down the best college basketball teams to one national champion, and we want in on the fun!
We've set up a bracket of our own - Mommy Madness - about all the...
I was the first among my group of friends to go through a major separation. I was never married but we have two children together and decided to call it quits. Most of my friends were just beginning their...
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Vitalant Offering Blood Donors a Free A1C Check in September
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