Girlfriend Getaways: Top Destination Picks

Girlfriend Getaways: Top Destination Picks

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote the blog “Why Girlfriend Getaways After 40 are Better.” Never did we anticipate that it would be so popular: The influx of traffic shutdown our website twice in two days! While the novice blogger in me would like to think it...
Why Girlfriend Getaways After 40 are Better!

Why Girlfriend Getaways After 40 are Better!

Last November, I took my first “real” girls’ trip since having kids. Sure I’d gone on a few weekend getaways, but the destinations were always within a two to three-hour drive. This time, my friend announced that for her 40th birthday,...
Surviving the Holidays with Family

Surviving the Holidays with Family

11 Tips for Putting the FUN Back into DysFUNctional I’m a lover of traditions around the holidays: cookie baking, music making, present buying and Santa spying. And while I enjoy spending time with family, for many a Norman Rockwell kind of...
The Battle of the Busy

The Battle of the Busy

I clearly remember it when it happened, almost exactly this time last year. I approached another mom, who is also a friend, on a field at our sons’ soccer practice. As our eyes met, I felt like I was staring at a reflection of myself. Heads tilted and shoulders...