DIY Easy Appliques

Spring in Los Angeles is notorious for being hot during the day and cold at night. We’re talking 30-40 degree differences in just a few hours. Because of that, we Angelenos wear lots of layers that we can add or subtract throughout the day. I bought Annie some lightweight slub-knit hoodies from Old Navy to…

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Rise And Shine And Scream

Mike and I both had sleep “issues” when we were growing up…and it appears we’ve passed this trait on to at least one of our children. Mike sleepwalked when he was a kid. Sometimes he’d wake up in different places in the house (like the living room couch or the dining room floor) and have no…

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While You Were At Preschool…

I worked on Greased Lightning. Annie says, “James looks tougher than he is!” 

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Baby’s First Haircut

Like his sisters before him, James is follicularly blessed. In the last month, I noticed his hair getting especially shaggy. The long bangs in the front started getting in his eyes, so one afternoon while he was sleeping I grabbed my scissors and trimmed. Except…I cut them bluntly, straight-across, and he ended up looking like…

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Lifted Spirits

The night before the March for Babies we had a rare Los Angeles rain storm. I was worried it would still be raining the morning of the march, but luckily the skies cleared and while it was “California cold,” it wasn’t anything a few extra layers couldn’t handle. I was so thrilled with our March…

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