Becoming Mama starts before Birth Shining Light Prenatal Education celebrates their first year. ~~~by Sarah Lolley~~~ Deena Blumenfeld’s Inspiration from Sarah Lolley on Vimeo. It seems like yesterday I was waddling into Deena Blumenfeld’s prenatal yoga class to calm my hormonal nerves because, well, drinking was not an option. Her Thursday night class was the [...]
Adventures in the Dark: The Great Sandy Survival
The Shortest Distance Can be the Longest Journey ~~~~~~~By Georgette Pascale – Founder and CEO of Pascale Communications~~ For those of us who live in the New York tri-state area, the Superstorm known as Sandy presented some very unique challenges. I was luckier than many because my family is safe and my home is pretty [...]
JetWetters: Mini-Van Madness
Roadtrip UTI ~ ~~~~~~by Adeline Kovaè~~~~~~ JetWetters, yeah, I’ve read it. Some of the stories are humorously horrifying, but those aren’t the stories for the lower class folks like my family. Let’s face it, when it costs a family of five over $2500 round-trip to fly on a 90 minute ride to PGH from ATL compared [...]
JetWetters: Washington D.C. or Bust
The Perfect Storm: A Trip to D.C. with My Children and a Grumpy Walrus ~~~~~~ by Sarah Lolley~~~~~~ Sometimes my logic amazes me. When my husband received the opportunity to attend a recent industry meeting in Washington, D.C., I insisted that we must all go…two toddlers, a baby, and our Confederate Jew grandpa. The idea [...]
The Village: Election Issue
Early Education and Child Care: Obama vs. Romney Before my mother became a single mom, I was fortunate to have experienced a stay-at-home mom before the d-word (divorce) sent my mom back to school. Then we moved to be closer to an entire village of relatives that became my extended parents. My granny’s house was [...]
Purposefully Accidental
~~~~ by Adeline Kovaè~~~~~ Zombie Day for Mummy~~~~~ So who decided Halloween was a kids’ holiday anyway? It had to be some single man. This one day of the year I don’t have to shower. My clothes don’t have to match let alone be clean without a wrinkle. I can leave the Fabreeze and perfume [...]
Purposefully Accidental
~ by Adeline Kovaè Surprise! Surprise!! Surprise!!! Who doesn’t love a great surprise? What can be better than a surprise party, an unexpected gift, a spontaneous engagement…. or a surprise pregnancy?! Many women know at the moment of conception that they are pregnant while others may know after that first missed period. That was not me. [...]
Good-Bye Bar Crawl! Hello Neighbors!
Finding our new home….. The first time I really left good ol’ Kentucky (for good, not just a paternal visit) I was enraptured, transfixed, and spellbound by both the cityscape and the carnival of people in my new neighborhood. Pittsburgh’s South Side was a sanctuary of collegiate bars and stoop-sitting fogies. I instantly fell in [...]
Purposefully Accidental ~ A Mom & Her Daisies
~ by Adeline Kovaè Is there such a thing as accidentally on purpose? Was it really an accident? I have no idea. My motherhood story begins at the young age of 12 with Endometriosis and reports from many doctors that I would probably never have kids. At 12, who really cares though! Fast forward to November [...]