Let's be honest - one of the hardest parts of being a parent is the lack of sleep or disrupted sleep that you get from middle of the night wakings with the kids.  But in a society that wears lack of sleep like a badge of honor ("I pulled an all nighter at work and didn't sleep for 2 days!" -- some poor junior banker on Wall St. bragging to his/her friends) Read More

If you start to lose your way, your motivation, and you begin to question yourself, your work, your being -- what brings you back? What do you do to remember?  I ask because recently, I began to question and began to doubt.  I felt the questioning of "what am I doing" and "why am I doing this" begin to creep back in. Read More

No matter who you are-- superman or supermom or whatever, the truth of the matter is that traveling on planes with young children SUCKS.  Unless you are one of the super lucky ones and your children fall asleep at any given moment in any given place...then plane rides are fun because you get peace and quiet, cuddles with a sleeping baby, and time to do nothing but read or watch movies (THAT sounds amazing by the way).  Read More

Today was my daughter's last day of school and as I sit here on the brink of summer, I can't help but reflect on how fast time is going by, and also how much has happened over the course of the past year.  It was a BIG year for us.  Read More