Girl’s Life

Sophia got her first real haircut this weekend. By real, I mean one that didn’t involve me hacking off her bangs, but that involved an actual professional hair stylist clipping and shaping. Sophia had these fabulous flippy hair “wings” on the side of her head that had been needing some attention for quite awhile now. […]

I’ve been reading all over lately about new moms taking time for themselves in order to be better parents. And it’s funny timing, too, because I just went and did that very thing last weekend. I went out. Oh, yes — OUT! And not just out. I went out with my best friend for […]

You might have noticed that posting has been a little light lately. And for that I have many good reasons. I know, I know…those bloggers who complain about not having enough time to post are so annoying, right? Yeah, well hear me out. I have SO many good excuses for not posting more this week […]

I hate that feeling when life starts creeping up on me too fast. And then all of a sudden I turn around and there’s August staring me straight in the face and I think, how the heck did you get in here? Isn’t it still last fall and I’m on glorious maternity leave […]

So I found the GREATEST thing to do when your baby or toddler is crying and whining and just being generally wah. Last night, Sophia — who is still totally hungover from jetlag. Yes, still! — went to sleep fine and then woke up abruptly a half hour later. This has been happening every night […]

We’re almost there, baby girl! One more month till the big day. You’ve lived almost a whole year. And really, that’s something to celebrate. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. We have a whole month of baby to go before we graduate you to the world of toddlerhood. And I’m only the smallest […]

We’re wrapping up our Hawaiian vacation today, and I thought I’d blog a quick post while everyone is napping. I should be napping, too, since we’re taking the red eye back to L.A. tonight, which never ceases to work me over. But I have too much energy right now — probably from all the relaxing. […]