About a week before the Little Lion Man was discharged, the Bug and I headed over to my friend Angela’s house for lunch and a play date. It just so happens that Angela is a nutrition expert and fabulous cook — and often contributes advice and recipes to (cool) progeny. After weeks of hospital food, [...]

I’ve been waiting to write this article for three and a half months.
On Monday evening, we finally brought our Little Lion Man home.
He came with a sea of cardboard boxes, one hundred feet of plastic tubing, several prescriptions, nursing care, portable suction machines, feeding pumps, an air compressor, emergency oxygen, feeding bags, and more syringes [...]

One of our favorite city playgrounds is about to get better — and you can help by enjoying an evening out!
Channel your inner child and head to Our Playground at Stadium Place on June 1 for WINE4WATER to help The Friends of Our Playground kick off their 2013 fundraising campaign.  Play, have a glass of [...]

End-of-the-school-year craziness running you down? Only to be slammed with the summer camp/vacation/keep ‘em busy routine? Seems like the modern parent barely has a moment to catch their breath.
Oh, and then there is the reality that pool season is right around the corner.
Baltimore mompreneur Beata Lorinc is coming to the rescue! Beata, Executive District Manager: [...]

Look at me! Look at me! Mommy, watch! Wahhhh!
There are plenty of ways that kids ask for attention and plenty of ways that they should receive it. Attention from parents shows love, affection, feedback, observations on the world, humor and the important message that kids are worth paying attention to.
Because I’m me and I get [...]

If you’ve been watching my instagram feed, you’ve probably realized I may need an app intervention. I’ve become completely obsessed with my newest photo editing app: A Beautiful Mess.
I was scrolling through my Instagram on Tuesday night when a good friend posted this adorable photo of her sleeping son. Insta-photo-app-envy!

So I quickly pinged her to [...]

Before the little lion man was born, I spent two days filling our downstairs freezer with meals. I knew that the last thing I wanted to do was try and figure out dinner with a newborn. Then we became NICU residents in and it was lucky if we ate at home at all.
We are starting [...]

The second stop on our family’s city art tour has been on our list for a while. Finally, a few weeks ago, we made it to the Free Family Sunday program at the Baltimore Museum of Art. My oldest, Olive, has been to the BMA before on a class trip and both girls are familiar [...]