Being a New York City family means we are an active family. The girls are always moving if they aren’t in school: they go to swim class, dance class, gymnastics, art class and instrumental lessons. Since we don’t have a backyard of our own, we take advantage of what the city has to offer and make the city our backyard by going on bike rides along the river, going on…
In some parts of the country, it’s back-to-school season, and in other parts, it’s still summer. Either way, your kids need to continue reading, and hopefully they’ve kept up with Scholastic’s Summer Reading Challenge program, which is now in its 8th year! The Summer Reading Challenge is dedicated to stopping the “Summer Slide” and getting kids to reading throughout the summer months — getting them ready for school! This year’s theme is “Reading…
I was not compensated in any way for this post. I really am a big fan of Barre3! All opinions expressed are mine. I’ve tried so hard to get back into shape and I just cannot get myself to the gym (which is downstairs in our apartment building), or go out running. I’m not a morning person, so it takes a lot for me to wake up, get dressed and…
My daughters school don’t start until September 9th, so as I write this, we are still on the last few days of our summer vacation: enjoying days at the beach, summer sunsets, and slurping down ice cream. However, the thought of school is not far from my mind. At our school, parents donate classroom supplies: from crayons, tape, disinfecting wipes to tissues, we help defray school and teacher’s costs by…
During the summer, the focus for the girls is to be active, make new friends, learn new sports and travel. The one thing that doesn’t change is reading. Every night before the girls go to sleep, each of them have at least a half hour of reading, by themselves, with a grown-up or a combination of the two. We want to make sure that they don’t fall in to the…
I knew Learn with Homer worked when my 5-year-old saw a picture of a lioness on the side of a bus and said, “That kind of lion hunts for food and is a carnivore!” I asked her where she had learned that and she exclaimed, “Homer!” with a look of pride on her face. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Learn with Homer for the past several months helping…
Although we live in the urban jungle known as New York City, my husband and I make it a point to always be out and about with our girls—whether it be rain, shine or snow. Being together and being active helps everyone because everyone is happy, not stressed, and you’re all making memories and creating tight family bonds. A daily morning hike in Arizona was a fun bonding moment for…
For Mother’s Day this year, I got woken up by my girls singing “Happy Mother’s Day” to me in the “Happy Birthday Tune”, a beautiful card with drawings from my girls, a lovely breakfast at Sarabeth’s TriBeCa and a lovely spa gift certificate from my husband. I also received, from the Caldrea team, this amazing trio of hand soap, hand lotion and glass candle from their Caldrea Essential Collection. It…
Living in New York City means a few things: you can always get a high-end cup of coffee, a really good slice of pizza, and find a Duane Reade if you need…anything else. From where I live, I literally have 10, yes TEN, Duane Reade’s within a six block radius of our apartment. And how do I know? Not from walking around my neighborhood, but from the new Duane Reade…
You may have noticed that I’ve been tweeting with the hashtag #MNexpert and @MommyNearestNYC. I’m a little late in announcing this, but I am so excited that the newly launched app, Mommy Nearest, has chosen me as an “Expert Mom” among five other amazing bloggers and mompreneurs. So, if you don’t know, Mommy Nearest is a mobile app that allows parents to access all kinds of child-related resources throughout New York City…