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Adventure Awaits
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about our lifestyle and how much time we spend outdoors. How different it would be if we still lived in an apartment in New York City, and how grateful I am for those...
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Enjoying the In-Between Time
We live a very busy, full life. We could not be happier. The reality that my children live as equal parts of of a big family, is that being one of four children means there are unique compromises...
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Traveling With Six in Style and Function
I’ve always been a bit of a car geek. My first car was a standard transmission, the same one I learned on and took my drivers test in. I like to learn about different types of cars and their...
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Healthy, Happy, and Seeing Clearly
This past summer was full of adventure for our family. We kick-started the school-free and schedule-lax months of June and July with a magical trip to Disney World, followed by jaunts to the Pacific...
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Growing With Them
When I was pregnant with my first child, so many people made comments to me about how much my life would change and how hard it would be to raise a baby. Then, 10 months later we were expecting our...
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Summer Without Reservations
After four years living on the East Coast, there isn’t a day that goes by that I’m not consciously grateful for our gorgeous Northern California weather. Our lives revolved around the weather when we...
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Styling Those Personalities
Ever since my babies were tiny, I’ve been very picky about what they wear. I went to fashion design school after all, and what I thought would make a great career ended up being a super fun hobby-for...
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Beating the Heat
It’s June 15th and we are a solid 13 days into summer. It is utterly wonderful to be able to wake up and have a relaxing morning with the kids, without anywhere to rush off to. We are baking cookies...
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Lifestyle and Lessons
It was always our intention to raise our children surrounded by family and friends, so when Justin graduated from dental school and it was time to leave New York, we headed back home to the Bay Area....
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Safe and Happy Places
I’ve seen my fair share of minor accidents involving my children over the years. Stitches, emergency room visits, bumps and bruises are to be expected when parenting four children under 9 years of age....
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With Love, From Us
I try to be very cognizant of when and where and how long I use my phone around my children; the same could be said about my large DSLR camera and to a degree that kind of mental awareness is...
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Everyday Superkid
We first realized our little Beau had super powers when he started walking at nine months of age. It wasn’t but a few weeks before that he was kicking a soccer ball across Central Park, and racing a...
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Breaking Barriers with Imagination
One of my favorite, and also incredibly fascinating aspects of raising children in a big family is watching how their relationships change over the years. Jack and Zoe, being our first and 19 months...
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Play For Life
One of the things that makes parenthood so wonderful, wacky, intense, complicated and challenging is the constant change that happens when kids inevitably progress through stages and ages. As soon as...
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Motherhood Stories
It occurred to me the other day that I have been carrying around diapers in bags for over nine years, pretty much straight through. My lifetime as a mother has run the gamut in so many different ways;...
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Embracing the Everyday
I learned fairly early on in parenthood that if I followed a natural, established path of abiding by certain standards, then the decisions made based on those values would present themselves in most...
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The Great Outdoor Sanctuary
We learned very early on in parenthood all about the benefits of nature and the outdoors. Jack was a very, very calm baby but on the occasion that he’d get upset, being outside under the enormous blue...
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Preparing for Christmas
We are all in anticipation of Christmas morning. For weeks we’ve been talking with the kids about what they want to ask for from Santa Claus, what they want to give, and which traditions we will...
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Fresh Faced
One of my favorite photos from my childhood is of me sitting on my mother’s vanity, looking into the mirror that I had completely smeared with her makeup. I was clad in only a diaper and dripping with...
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Opening the Conversation
I was talking to some friends the other night about the cross-country flights I used to take when the kids were babies, about how they’d get so carsick on the way to the airport and then we’d be left...
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