Parenting
Cat Obsession and the Birth of Our RedBubble Store
We adopted two cats for my daughter’s 4th birthday last year, and since then we have had countless hours of entertainment (and furniture destruction). One of my daughter’s favorite activities have become drawing cats. We have acquired quite a collection of notebooks with pages and pages of cat pictures. I was recently looking into one…
Read MoreI Survived an Airplane Trip With a 2-Year Old Toddler
I survived my first airplane trip with a 2-year old toddler. Flying with a toddler is very different from flying with a baby in terms of challenges. What is the reason behind this? Because toddlers are often highly mobile and impossible to control. At the same time, they are also too young to completely understand…
Read MoreBest Toys For Learning Letters and Numbers
Learning letters and numbers typically starts at pre-school. It can be a difficult skill to learn and, as usual, learning happens faster when it is fun. My daughter just turned four in October. Since she started school this summer, I have noticed an accelerated letter recognition. We started playing and teaching her letters and numbers…
Read MoreIs it Too Late to Start Your Own Business?
Who is the typical entrepreneur? What do this person look like? I bet the first thing many people would think of is a young male adult, maybe in his 20s, in a small Silicon Valley office (or garage) working on some high-tech invention. This stereotype is slowly becoming outdated and research shows that more and…
Read MoreBest Sippy Cups for Toddlers (in my Opinion)
In this blog post, we will take a look at our favorite sippy cups in each category: no-spill cup, straw cup, open cup, stainless steel cup. We started transitioning our daughter from a baby bottle to a sippy cup around the age of 14 months – pretty much as soon as we introduced cow milk…
Read MoreFavorite Christmas Activities with a Preschooler
This Christmas season was so fun, magical, and exciting for my 3-year-old daughter. And it did seem to go by very quickly. Even though Covid-19 has kept us inside a bit too much this season, we tried our best to make the 2020 holiday season count! To make the holiday even more fun for my…
Read MoreTeaching a Toddler to Love Reading
Our daughter loves reading books. Well, realistically, she cannot read the actual words yet (she is 3), but she sounds like she does a lot of the time because she remembers what we read to her so well. Oftentimes she would sit down for 30-40 minutes at a time during the day and read her…
Read More4 Things I Do With My Toddler When Stuck at Home
For good or bad, 2020 would have been the one year where we got to spend tons of time indoors. Here in the Northeast of the U.S. we have four seasons, and it is currently freezing cold, so we do not spend nearly as much time outdoors as we used to a couple of months…
Read MoreHow to Get Your Toddler in the Bath Without a Tantrum
Is your child cranky at bath time or resists baths? Even kids like my daughter, who love water and bath, often have a hard time getting into the tub. If you are tired of tantrums before bath, give the activities below a try and see if you can switch things up to become a positive…
Read MoreOur Toddler Birthday Party During Pandemic
The times of blowing candles over a cake that you will later cut and share with everyone that came to the birthday party is officially over. Although the global pandemic is still not over, and while we are not able to have big parties, we can still have a fun, memorable celebration. We just need…
Read MoreYou Can Have a Career and Be a Good Mom. I think.
Even though I am just publishing this blog post, in my head, I have been writing it for the past 3 – 4 years. Can you have a career and be a good mom? The most overwhelming emotion you are likely starting to experience while thinking about this topic is probably guilt. I know I…
Read More5 Ways to Entertain Your Child Outdoors
Entertaining my child outdoors is so much easier than indoors! When we are inside, my daughter always seem to want us to be involved in the activity she does. However, when we are outside there seem to always be something that she can occupy herself with. Below is a list of five simple activities that…
Read MoreThe New Adventure of a Mom Entrepreneur Living in NY
My Story I’m a first-time mom and an entrepreneur, living in Westchester, New York. My life completely changed three years ago, when my daughter was born. In addition to all the excitement around my little girl, I decided to launch a new business (like motherhood isn’t enough of a rollercoaster, ha!). Starting and growing a…
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