Today, my 2-year-old and I made miniature chocolate chip muffins (while my 3-month-old watched from her bouncy seat and/or from her perch in my arms). We poured and we measured and we made a mess of flour and sugar and vanilla. We may have stolen a few chocolate chips from the golden-tipped bag. Of course, […]
Thanks to everyone who posted book recommendations on my recent post about children's books that teach social/moral lessons. As I mentioned before, the selection of children's books that teach lessons is actually rather shabby. I'd love to see more books that go beyond silliness and provide instruction on topics such as sharing, saying "please" and […]
Currently, my husband and I are pretty "spoiled" when it comes to sleep. It hasn't always been this way though. I remember the sleepless, walking-the-floors-with-restless-baby-at-2-am, "zombie days" when my older daughter was an infant...quite well. I can still remember that overwhelming exhaustion like it was yesterday. In fact, our older daughter was still waking up […]
If you were to walk into my past and see me at any of my former jobs (before I became a mommy), you would find me in a business suits and heels - or at least in a button-up shirt with a pencil skirt or slacks. I always dressed to match upper level executives. In […]
Penelope Trunk wrote a post on her blog in early June 2007 {Blending my kids and my career (ugh)} about the various tactics that she uses to distract her kids when she has to make or receive business calls during the day... Tactics like letting her child dump an entire box of Cheerios on the […]
Please welcome Sara Sutton Fell (pictured right) to Metropolitan Mama. She's the CEO of FlexJobs, a site "where you'll find the best telecommuting and online jobs, from freelance to fulltime, all hand-screened and legitimate. Guaranteed." FlexJobs has been featured on CNN, Forbes.com, and AOL.com. I recently had an opportunity to interview Sara about FlexJobs and […]
I never forget to R.S.V.P. for "sales parties." The reason I don't forget is because I automatically say "no." No offense to Mary Kay, Arbonne, Premier Jewelry, and Gold Canyon - I just don't like to go to a party where I know with 100% certainty that I'm not going to buy anything. Yes, I […]
Raise your hand if you brush twice a day, floss at least once a day, and see a dentist every 6 months. I don't see many hands (okay, I don't see any hands since this is a virtual survey...). Oh, wait, Caryn Bailey, you can keep your hand raised because I know that you do, […]