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Mandy from Living Peacefully With Children and Jennifer from Hybrid Rasta Rama are pleased to announce the I Am Mom! Enough! Carnival. The recent Time Magazine article on attachment parenting took the world by storm. Although Time surely did not set ou...

How bad can it be? He's got his puzzle book and a shake!The first thing I want to tell all of you is how much I appreciate the outpouring of support and concern from everyone.  (I've been posting quick updates on Robert's Facebook page www.face...

Starting with food ... Tuesday's Placer Business Tweetup at Mas Cocina Mexicana had excellent quesadillas, great people and I learned about a good cause. While at the Bradley Lodge we grilled up some salmon with a salad (lettuce grown in my grandma's ...

My always-amazing Aunt asked to take the gaggle overnight. As if that wasn't enough, she offered to put Todd and I up in a hotel room in San Francisco. Twist my arm. I had a hot driver. We drove through tunnels... ...sat in traffic - wh...

In one six week blizzard of disobedience, I went from the youngest child who pleased his mother to the only one of the four children to get kicked out of the house.

I remember a lot about my childhood, probably because it was a really, really good one.  My mom was a stay-at-home-mom and despite some serious health issues (sound familiar?) she did everything she could to make sure that I lived in the moment an...

The hardest part of living abroad is being away from my mom.  She is my best friend, my confidant, my role model and so much more.  Anyone who has met her can testify that she has the most contagious laugh and we share the silliest sense of h...

  Hey Time Magazine. Are you man enough? Are you man enough to take it? Can you take my motherhood? Can you take my breastfeeding and baby-wearing and co-sleeping? Can you take my bottle-feeding and strollers and cribs? Can you comprehend my ambiguity? Can you fathom my depths… Can you breathe under the weight...

Supply and demand is a beautiful thing.  You demand more coconut oil and I supply it! Ok, maybe I don’t personally supply it but I have the different task of vetting the best coconut oil out there! Sometimes I find the coconut oil and sometimes...

You think when you're giving back when you volunteer but I was reminded again that volunteering is a gift. I met Susan Schultz when my family helped clean up at a Sacramento park early one Saturday morning. Susan didn't live in the neighborhood or was...