This Christmas, chill out and put down the glitter gun.
Over on SheKnows, my favorite ways to make the holiday season less hectic (and a dancing video, obviously).
7 Ways To De-Stress This Holiday Season
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Wet Heads & Whirly Pops (And A Wednesday Alamo Twitter Chat)
Before we get started: This Wednesday at 8PM EST come hang out on Twitter, where I’ll be chatting family vacations past and present with some other CTMs using the hashtag #AlamoDriveHappy.
Now: let’s talk travel.
My mom, dad and I always traveled together a lot, and kept traveling together way past the age when kids typically enjoy running around the world with their parents. I remember once asking them why they never packed me off to some relative or another so they could take a trip alone together and they said, “Because it’s more fun with you.”
At the time I was a teenager and probably rolled my eyes – goddd you guys are so unromantic – but I get what they were saying now. Because while I do miss (and plan to have) just-us-two trips with Kendrick, once your kids hit the age when they’re actually experiencing things, making memories of their own…you just want them to come along for the ride, I guess. All of the rides.
Bucket List V: So Many Seasonal Activities
On our must-do list for this holiday season: all the festive everythings.
Starting with a Halloween thing, because we've put off going to The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze in Croton-on-Hudson for three years now, and this is our last chance.
Secret (And Scented) Garden
With BrunchCritic Founder (and fellow wreath-wearer) Andrea Pappas
Talk about a magical night.
To celebrate the launch of several new scents from eco-luxe brand Caldrea - Basil Blue Sage, Lavender Pine, Ginger Pomelo, and Pear Blossom Agave - the rooftop at Gramercy Park was transformed into what I can only describe as a wonderland. We're talking jewelbox rooms filled with rose blossoms, lavender vines trailing from ceilings, palm trees filled with fairy lights arching overhead, and guests wandering through it all with blossom wreaths twined through their hair.
How To Pose For The Camera
Even if you don't post gazillions of photographs of yourself to the Internet (ahem), those occasions - weddings, graduations, bar mitzvahs - do occasionally roll around when you have to get your pose on. Here's how to do it without looking angry, or asleep, or completely weird.
(Click here for lots more of my Allure segments.)
The Very Worst Manicure In The World
Ramshackle Glam’s Top Ten Best Ikea Finds
Such a cool idea for creating extra living room seating…and love the layered rugs.
A couple of days ago I spotted a post on Domaine Home about their editors' favorite Ikea picks, and I thought: I totally need to show you mine. Because Ikea may be the Seventh Circle Of Hell (at least with a toddler in tow), but it is also the site of some of my all-time favorite home decor finds.
Shall we?
A Party Dress For All Your Holiday Everythings
Q. I need recommendations for the perfect holiday party dress...I want to buy one dress that's classy yet festive, and that I can wear to multiple parties this season!
- M
A. If I were investing in just one dress for the duration of the holiday season, I'd go with a beautifully cut fire-engine red style. You can wear it with booties and a leather jacket for more casual events and with your best jewelry for more formal events…and no matter how you accessorize it, you'll be "that girl in the red dress," which is always a nice thing to be.
Boobs After Baby
Babies are so great. They are wonderful little creatures whose wonderfulness more than compensates for all of the crazy things that they do to your life and to your body. And that's a good thing, because "crazy" is exactly what the things that they do to you are.
Today we need to go wayyy over there into OvershareLand and talk about boobs, and exactly what goes on with them in the weeks and months after the baby arrives...because when I was pregnant I read all the books about what happens to you post-pregnancy - hell, I wrote a book about this - and even when I had already gone through it once before, I was still floored by what happens to the top half of your body in the weeks following the birth.
Floored.
Blog Advice (& What I Wish I’d Known)
On Me: Hatch Dress; Saks Fifth Avenue Fedora (similar); Deux Lux Backpack
Click here for an interview in which I talk my favorite blogging tips, what I wish I'd known when I started out in this field, and a (possibly surprising) thing that I really seriously do not like to do.
And while we're talking Q&As, click here to check out my interview with MomTrends - it's part of their Holiday Gift Guide, which is full of fun ideas (and also contains interviews with Soleil Moon Frye, Rosie Pope and others).
