After our marvelous adventures in Huntington Beach we headed to San Diego. I love all the jokes the movie Madagascar makes about San Diego. It really does seem like a surreal place, all gorgeousness and ocean and warm weather. We stayed at the Blue Sea Lodge, which is another Pacifica Hotel like the Sandcastle Inn where we stayed in Pismo Beach. And just like the Sandcastle, the Blue Sea Lodge is right on the beach. So close to the beach…
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Summer drinks to refresh!! I love summer and the warm sun!! Last month we looked at water intake, so this month lets look at some other ways to increase your fluid intake. Nothing beats a cold glass of ice water, but often I find clients get a little tired of just water. You may find that adding a lemon wedge adds some flavor, or getting the small ice chips. You may want to add some flavor to your water or…
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Before you know it, the school bell will be ringing once more. Or perhaps you are counting down the days, hours and minutes. To help ease back into the school-year, here’s a sampling of recommended reading for your grade-schoolers, courtesy of my resident education expert. Recommended why? Research has indicated that students in the top 10% of reading achievement read these books most often. Highlights from the list, by grade level. 1st Grade: If You Give a Pig a Pancake,…
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We travel to Southern California on a regular basis and Huntington Beach is my absolute favorite. The actual beach, I mean. I went as a little kid with my family and have glowy, sunny, happy memories of watching professional surfers and thinking incredulously “they get paid to play in the ocean all day?” Fast forward 20-some odd years {emphasis on the some odd} to my early days of marriage and motherhood. Ten or eleven years ago we started traveling as…
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Summer is almost over. (Ooh, I said it out loud). Feet ravaged by flip flops, hands ravaged by gardening, nerves worn by kids home from school. Sounds like it’s time for a little TLC for mommy. The Body Shop wants to help with thier new Organic Virgin Coconut Oil bath and body care products. The Giveaway: a collection of Organic Virgin Coconut Oil creams, scrubs and butters valued at over $70! You can read more about them here, or you…
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I have something that you absolutely must put on your summer to-do list. And if you don’t have an ice cream maker, add “beg, borrow, or buy an ice cream maker” to your list right before this: MAKE LEMON ICE CREAM. So delicious. So refreshing. So summery. The lemon ice cream recipe that I use is one I found by way of Cafe Johnsonia, who found it by way of Martha Stewart. What I love about it is that it’s…
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This is just a complete mishmash of photos from Chicago last week. I’m still so tired I feel upside down, and my ankles are only now losing a little bit of swelling. Getting off the plane from Boston post BlogHer, they resembled play-doh. Put your finger in and it got stuck. Not pretty. So I’m resting and recuperating before I do a big post. Let me just say, I haven’t had that much fun since college. Scratch that, I haven’t…
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No summer beach getaway for me this year. Boo. But The Body Shop is looking out for me by making me feel a little bit like I’m lounging surf-side on a secluded island. Even if that island happens to by my bathtub and secluded means I’ve locked the bathroom door. Their new line of organic virgin coconut oil bath treats is deliciously divine. The fragrance alone is perfection: coconut-ty but more sophisticated than that oily glop I slathered on in…
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While Allison was away at BlogHer at the Swiffer SocialLuxe Lounge Party,my brother came up from California with his family and his family’s family. We have not had a trip together in quite some time so we decided that once he got here, we would go camping in nearby mountains. Together with our two children, my brother, his wife, their two children 3 and 1.5) and his mother-in-law we headed up into the bush. Mother-in-law you ask? Well, she is…
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