These were all taken on a walk through my in-laws garden.
Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
Who You Callin’ a Rust Belt? A Michigan Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Travel, wordless wednesday, tagged flowers, garden, michigan, motor city road trip, nature, wordless wednesday on August 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Puerto Rico – Beach, Rainforest and An Earthquake Too (plus a Snapfish Giveaway!)
Posted in giveaway, puerto rico, Travel, tagged Caribbean, El Yunque National Forest, family travel, food, Intercontinental Hotel, Old San Juan Puerto Rico, Wilo Benet on January 16, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Every year we go on a huge family vacation with my husband’s entire family. At this point there are 16 of us, in 3 different states on opposite ends of the country all trying to coordinate and agree on a common meeting point. The only non-negotiable sticking point for my sun worshipping in-laws is that [...]
My Top 5 NYC Movies for Blog Her ’10 and Beyond…
Posted in kids, life in nyc, movies, Travel, tagged audrey hepburn, big, blogher, breakfast at tiffany's, cher, entertainment, fame, film, ghostbusters, kids films, manhattan, moonstruck, movies, new york city movies, nyc, old movies, seinfeld, sex and the city, stuart little, the muppets, when harry met sally, working girl on August 3, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Even if you’ve never been to NYC chances are you feel like you have just from watching Sex and the City, or Law and Order or Seinfeld (with its fake NYC sets it still passes). But I thought I’d put together a list of my favorite New York movies that will put you in a [...]
NYC iPhone Apps Every BlogHer Attendee Should Have
Posted in blogging, iphone apps, life in nyc, technology, theater, Travel, tagged blog conferences, blogher, broadway tickets, central park, hopstop, ipad app, iphone app, manhattan, nyc, opentable, travel on July 28, 2010 | 10 Comments »
You’re coming to New York City For BlogHer‘10. You know that most of your time is already taken up by all of the crazy BlogHer events but still you’re going to have some free time right? These are the iphone apps I can’t live without as a native New Yorker. They will help you make [...]
Yahoo! Motherboard Summit – Power to the Moms!
Posted in blogging, books, food, technology, Travel, Y! Motherboard, tagged blog conferences, cupcakes, flickr, four seasons hotel, momblogger, moms, palo alto, technology, women in tech, Yahoo motherboard summit, yahoo!, Ymotherboard on July 19, 2010 | 17 Comments »
I just got back from Palo Alto and a whirlwind two days spent at the outrageously gorgeous Four Seasons Palo Alto and the Yahoo! Sunnyvale Campus for the Yahoo! Motherboard Summit. For the past few months I have been a part of the Yahoo! Motherboard, a group of mombloggers who blog monthly about a specific [...]
Two Really Hot Ways to Stay Cool This Summer: Natural History Museum Event and Chelsea Piers Bowling!
Posted in kids, life in nyc, Travel, tagged amnh, bowling, chelsea piers, free things in nyc, museum, nyc, penguins, raising kids in the city, summer, summer in the city on June 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I don’t post a lot of “event” type stuff on my blog. There are fabulous sites out there like MommyPoppins and GoCityKids who have the serious lowdown all the time. But, these two summer special events were both too good not to share, since I know I’ll be doing both of them. First: “Kids Bowl [...]
Flying the (Not) Family-Friendly Skies
Posted in kids, nyc moms post, parenting, Travel, tagged airplane, airport, DS, family travel, ipod, nycmomsblog, parenting, raising twins on January 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Of all the ways your life changes when you have kids none is more drastic than the way you travel. Gone are the days of a small carry-on with a book, an ipod and some trashy magazines. Suddenly your carry on is like Mary Poppins carpet bag – full of snacks (both salty and sweet), [...]
When Having Twins Finally Pays Dividends
Posted in Italy, life in nyc, Travel, tagged family travel, identical twins, raising twins, twin pregnancy on August 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Both of my daughters did not show up on my first sonogram. For 8 weeks I thought I was having a normal singleton pregnancy with all of the usual excitement and anticipation a first pregnancy brings. My husband missed that first sonogram so to be nice my doctor did another one at my next appointment. [...]












