Tag: kids

Gift Idea: The Wicked Big Toddlah

One of our friends got this beautiful, hardcover book, “The Wicked Big Toddlah” by Kevin Hawkes for Morgan’s first birthday and it has become such a hit in our house, I had to write about it and give my mommy review. I am always looking for great gift ideas for kids and sometimes find myself stumped on the age or sex (I have no idea about boy stuff!) Therefore, when I discover a great gift that could be for a boy or girl, and could be given to a child ages birth through at least age 4 or 5, it is like hitting the gift idea jackpot!

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OC Tide Pooling Tips by OC Mom’s Activity Guide!

This guest blog arrived in my email box last night and I am so grateful it did because I did not have a post ready for today!  Emma got hit with a bad respiratory virus early this week, then baby Morgan got it a few days later.  Awful! The only thing worse than one sick kid is two sick kids!  So thank you Katie from OC Mom’s Activity Guide for saving my day and giving me a fabulous guest post!

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Lessons in Surviving The 1st Year!

Today is my baby girl’s 1st birthday! I can’t believe how fast this past year went. And how much I have learned. I thought baby number two would be a breeze – I was an old pro – right?! WRONG! This past year pushed me to the edge as a person more than any year in my life…

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Redefining Romance in Parenthood

I was thinking about Father’s Day the other day and almost had to laugh out loud at how MUCH our lives have changed since we became parents 4 years ago. I mean, what did we DO before with all our time? It also got me to thinking about how much my idea of romance has been so drastically redefined since having our two kids. Things sure are different now, but I couldn’t imagine it any other way. So this is a personal post in honor of the daddy in our house this Father’s Day!

I met my husband on February 20th, 1998 at Malarkey’s Bar in Newport Beach by the jukebox. I wasn’t supposed to go out that night. I was nursing a broken heart and crying to the Titanic CD in my room. No joke.

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