Formerly Gracie

Kindergarten Mom Jitters

August 17, 2011

Getting ready for the school year is easy for me. The long list of supplies, buying new uniforms and shoes, stocking the fridge with lunch items, scoping out the new teacher… These are just items to tick off my to-do list. Certainly nothing to get weepy and emotional about. Then yesterday morning as I chided […]

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{Giveaway} “Fill the Backpack” with Back to School Goodies Valued Over $750

August 16, 2011

In celebration of (or perhaps in dreading) Back to School, the team at Splash Creative Media is launching “Fill the Backpack”, a collaborative effort to share the fantastic brands and causes that help parents and kids get ready for school. This is our second year we’re doing it, and it’s even bigger and better than before! To kick […]

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A Slice of Love

August 13, 2011

Last Sunday, Jennifer Perillo, a fellow blogger, lost her husband suddenly to a heart attack. Just like that. No warning. No signs. I didn’t know Jennie prior to this week, but that’s not saying much. There are lot of bloggers I don’t know, in spite of being as well-know and much-loved as she is. Yet, grief […]

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The Bink Fairy Fib

August 10, 2011

My girl has been a “bink baby” since the day she was born, and I make no apology for it. Because, like me, she finds something she likes and sticks with it, she’s partial to the one type. And because I am also lazy, I’ve never tried to break her of the habit. The bink’s […]

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I’m Back from BlogHer’11 (Did you miss me?)

August 9, 2011

The first time (and last time) I went to BlogHer was 2007. It was held at Chicago’s Navy Pier. I booked the wrong flight and missed the keynote address, but arrived in time for the “speed dating”… because the conference was small enough that all of the attendees could FIT in one room and exchange […]

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Three Ways to Managing Your Digital Life from ChicaLogic

July 29, 2011

At next week’s blog-strvaganza that is otherwise known as BlogHer’11, I will be speaking on a panel called Being the CTO of Your Life, which is all about tech solutions for managing your household. I will also been sitting in the Geek Bar (think Apple “Genius Bar”) for two hours, giving one-on-one tutorials on Everything You Wanted to Know […]

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On Having a Girl

July 27, 2011

At around 1:30 am every night, I hear Lou scream in her sleep, “No Mommy. No Mommy. I not want you. I want DADDY!” Because it’s not enough for her to hate me when she’s awake, she dreams about it too. The last few days, she’s taken to screaming fits like the ones that used […]

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ANNOUNCING: I am a ChicaLogic Brand Ambassador!

July 26, 2011

As I wandered the corridors of the MommyTech Summit at CES 2011 this past January, I was introduced to ChicaLogic by none other than its founder and “Chica in Charge”, Lori Fraijo Raygoza. ChicaLogic is a PC maintenance solution built around the idea that women approach tech differently than men. I was skeptical at first… Not for nothing, but […]

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