I love the fall. I've lived in both the West coast and overseas in my life, and I literally yearned for the East Coast fall when I lived in those places: the changing colors on the trees, the smell of burning leaves, apple cider and pumpkins.

Of course, here in Philadelphia we've been having an Indian Summer most of the fall. It had been in the upper-80s for over a week now, but this morning we woke up to… Read More

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. Each year I get tons of submissions from some amazing companies and products, all of whom are helping to spread the word by donating a portion of the proceeds from sales to help the fight. And of course there are tons of sites all over the place doing this - which is so fantastic - but I thought I would feature just a few here:

Aimee J - she sells… Read More

Last week, my babysitter and my oldest son were sitting at the kitchen table. At 3 1/2 years old, we're working on learning to read some "familiar" words such as "mommy" and "daddy." My babysitter was writing words down for fun and sticking them on post-it notes that they were then sticking on the wall of the kitchen. She wrote down our names, our pets names and grandparents nicknames.

She then suggested, "how about we write down your… Read More

Hopefully my son will someday forgive me for this photo. I just had to do it, this hat from Maggie's Rose was too cute to not be modeled in person and since I only have boys in this house, someone's head was going to get it and it was either the baby or one of the cats, and they ran away.

Of course, taking this photo and seeing this adorable hat got me thinking, what other products would… Read More

One of my favorite blogs of all time is this site, Vegan LunchBox. We're not vegan, or vegetarian even, but I did spend awhile being vegetarian and we're not huge meat eaters. Plus, my son's school does not allow meat so I've had to get creative with what I can send him to eat each day for lunch when he stays for preschool Lunch Bunch.

On Vegan LunchBox, one Mom blogs (with pictures) about everything that… Read More

Following up on my blog from last week about our Halloween costumes arriving (Batman's still in his outfit almost every day, the excitement has NOT died down at all), I've been finding more coupons and additional stores to shop for Halloween costumes. I thought I'd list them here for anyone still shopping:

I listed BabyStyle last week; you can use coupon code BABYJEL for $10 off a purchase of $30 or more on their site.
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