While I was working on rounding up the 10 best Mother’s Day gifts, I realized that the greatest presents are actually things that money can’t buy. When I think of the things I would truly love for Mother’s Day this year, they aren’t things at all. Shelter-in-place, quarantine, social distancing, whatever you’re calling our state of being during this pandemic, has presented most mothers with unprecedented situational stress. The amount of time we have been spending with our children has…
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I’m knee deep in potty training over here with my middle child, which means cookies are being made along with bribes. You’ve probably seen the viral 3 ingredient peanut butter cookie recipe floating around on the interwebs, and this is my riff on that. It takes 6 pantry staples and an optional 7th ingredient, which I can personally attest takes these over the top and will get you results (in potty training at least). Here is what you’ll need to…
This week’s quarantine life brought some of the best news we’ve heard and some of the worst. I honestly didn’t even know what to write today until I talked to one of my nearest and dearest friends just now. The photo above was taken this morning, after I had cried before 10 AM (I won’t even go into detail because I am sure you can imagine why). I shared it with my close friends and told them how I was…
I’m officially at a point where I am stuck somewhere between hell and the life I once knew: a purgatory of sorts. It feels as if some days we are bombarded with messaging telling us to stay positive all the while reading news that says people are dying all around us and we won’t be going back to anywhere anytime soon, let alone back to the way things were ever again. This messaging cycle has been sending me down a…
Happy Fitness Friday! Not that days matter all that much any more. Anyway, today is a very special one because I’m sharing this gem of an at-home fitness resource who is not only a legend of her craft (featured on Live with Kelly and Michael, Good Morning America, Fox, in the New York Times, Woman’s Health, US Weekly, Fit Pregnancy, Fitness, Health Magazine, Shape and more), she is also a friend and a fellow ex-Manhattan turned Greenwich mom. Nikki Glor…
I’m sure you’ve seen recipes boasting the best chocolate chip cookies ever, but I know for a fact that only one exists and it’s this one right here. They’re a snow day staple at our house, and since we are on an extended worse-than-a-snow-day-hiatus from life, what better time like the present to bake a batch? These disappear whenever my husband is around, until the last cookie. I asked him once why he never eats the last cookie, and he…
I’m bringing back Fitness Friday for a very special treat: a free workout you can do at home, with or without weights, with a personal trainer to the stars. Raheem Chatman trains Geneva Carr and Ashanti (if you’ve ever seen her abs I know you’re listening) and now you. If you’re feeling anything like I do right now, you might be worried about losing those gym gainz now that even Equinox and Soul Cycle threw in the towel and shuttered…
Thank you for your feedback on what you want to read right now, and welcome to day two of Coronavirus Quarantine Content. Some of you asked for healthy, family-friendly recipes using pantry staples, so today I’m sharing my go-to chicken and rice recipe that I shared on my Instagram stories Sunday evening. This version can be made with many different substitutions (for example, I used cipollini onions and shishito peppers because that was all I had around and couldn’t stomach…
Given that our lives have now been completely turned upside down, I wanted to address something that has been bothering me in the wake of Coronavirus quarantine. Following school closures last week, and now state mandated closures of pretty much everything, many of us and our partners are out of work, or working from home. We are fortunate to have the ability to do so, as many do not, and some are in a state of panic and dread wondering…
I feel this is the beginning of the end of nursing forever. My daughter, my third and (most likely) last baby, will be 11 months old three days from today. Last night, she didn’t want to nurse. She wanted to suck her thumb instead. Raquel is my first thumb sucker, so this is new to me. I laid her in her crib, certain she would change her mind and want me to feed her. But she didn’t. She just went…