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the littlest redshirts sit out kindergarten

August 25, 2010

I read this article in NY Time Sunday Styles recently about holding back 4 & 5 year olds from Kindergarten and wondered when will people stop disputing this and make up their minds? Pamela Paul poses the question: ‘AFTER all those attentive early childhood rituals — the flashcards, the Kumon, the Dora the Explorer, [...]

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back to school

August 17, 2010

Wow! Where did summer go? Everyone has returned from their time off and it’s a new school year. As school begins, it evokes excitement, seeing old friends, meeting new students, moving into a different grade, and being in class with new teachers. As a parent, you also know that it brings about new challenges and [...]

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chicken breast with zucchini pappardelle

August 17, 2010

This recipe for chicken from epicurious.com with zucchini pappardelle looks so impressive when you serve it for dinner you guests won’t believe all it took was an adjustable blade slicer to make the zucchini look so cool!
Ingredients
•   1 pound zucchini, trimmed
•   2 garlic cloves
•   4 boneless chicken breast halves with skin (1 1/2 [...]

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made with love bracelets

August 17, 2010

These bracelets are all over and so fun & cute for the summer and buying them raises funds for homeless children in Senegal. You can buy them from madewithloveinbrazil.com, they are made from recycled rubber by women in Djenné, Mali providing them with a viable means of support and are sold to raise [...]

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blondies

August 9, 2010

My youngest daughter and I baked these Blondies the other day, I found them on this cute site, smittenkitchen.com, they are adapted from the book How to Cook Everything
written by Mark Bittman.
Ingredients:
8 tablespoons butter, melted
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla or 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
Pinch salt
1 cup all-purpose flour
Directions:
Butter an 8×8 pan
Mix melted [...]

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the case against summer vacation

August 9, 2010

This cover article from Time Magazine claims that we should ‘Blame Tom Sawyer: Americans have a skewed view of childhood and summertime. We associate the school year with oppression and the summer months with liberty. School is regimen; summer is creativity. School is work and summer is play. But when American students [...]

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santa monica place opens!!

August 9, 2010

I can’t be more excited about the opening of santa monica place! It’s so much more then just a mall, with it’s open air decks and restaurants it is surely going to become everyone’s favorite new hangout! I am especially excited about bloomingdales, nordstroms & barneys (co-op) coming to santa monica, now i no longer [...]

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the littlest redshirts sit out kindergarten

back to school

chicken breast with zucchini pappardelle

made with love bracelets

blondies

the case against summer vacation

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