December, 2013

Loving Your Body and Yourself: The Journey to Acceptance

  We are all our harshest critics.  We see the “flaws”, the dimples and pockmarks and scars that no one else does.  We fixate on our perceived imperfections-the cellulite or the stretch-marks.  What if, just for one day, we focused on loving ourselves instead? What sort of a change do…

Santa Baby: Meeting the Man in Red

Little C has been waiting ever so patiently to meet Santa, and over the weekend she got her wish.  The place we live is amazing, and they bring in a Santa every year to the clubhouse for all of the kids. I was worried Little C might be scared or…

(Family) Date Night

Everyone needs a date night-and in our family, date night doesn’t often mean Big C and I going out just the two of us. Both of our families live far away, and with baby sitters hard to find out here, our date nights usually involve all three of us.  Date…

Ratatouille: Eggplant & Goat Cheese

It has been unseasonably cold here in LA (I know, I shouldn’t complain the majority of the country is well-below freezing) but the weather has been making me crave warm, hearty food, so I threw together this awesome ratatouille/pasta sauce/ragout/ whatever you want to call it.  To my busy moms…