One of Noob Baby’s favorite art activities is painting with Do-A-Dot markers. We discovered these paint-marker hybrids awhile back in one of her toddler craft classes. I love that these paints are spill proof and require zero setup. Since we do most of our crafting indoors (on our magical Stainmaster carpeting I might add), I’m always looking for art ideas… Read More
On Monday, we started a new session of Mommy & Me Preschool. And like any other morning, I lay in bed praying to myself, “I hope today is the day that I get some really condescending advice from a total stranger.” And sure enough, my prayers were answered. For awhile I was starting to lose hope that such a fortuitous… Read More
Noob Mommy readers like Jacqueline, Kristin, Cindy, Mary, Kari, Stef, Virginia, Elena, and Angela are joining me on my 30 Day Fitness Challenge to transform our bodies and get healthy, confident and energized. Will you join us and finally ditch the excuse train? This blog post will be our “meeting place” for the 30 Day Fitness Challenge. You might want… Read More
In the first part of my How I Lost My Pregnancy Baby Weight series (and I have no idea how many are coming, so we’ll just define “series” rather loosely), I mentioned how counting calories was not all that it was cracked up to be. Just to be clear, I absolutely believe eating nutritiously and modestly are critical components in… Read More
“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” ~ Julia Child You might remember that quote from my post, The B Word, back in July 2009. At the time, I didn’t realize that in just a few months I’d be in the best shape of my life since probably… Read More
Mmm… chalk dust. Allegra. On the rocks. Make it dirty. Just so you know, adults do reside in this house. You can kind of spy evidence of an adultish coffee table there in the background (yeah, that sad little brown thing cowering in front of the miniature armchair … which by the way, we don’t even own a full-sized… Read More