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7 Ways to Enjoy Device-Free Family Time
Like most kids of the 80's, I grew up watching after-school shows, Saturday morning cartoons, and looked forward to beating the next level of Mario Brothers on my Nintendo. If I was lucky, I got to play my cousin's Sega or Gameboy when we went over for a family...
Lessons in Leadership: Valentines Edition
If you know anything about me, it may come at no surprise to you that my son is a list-maker. He makes a list of his chores, what he's going to do after school, and last night, to whom he would send Valentine cards. Of course, he chose to begin this project right...
Living Whole: Baby Steps to a Healthier You
Here we are with January coming to a close and statistically speaking about 25% of you who made New Year’s resolutions didn’t even make it the first week. Oops! Do you fall into that 25% or are you still going strong? Isn’t it funny how nothing physically changes...
Give Each Other a Break
My husband is a surfer. In the summertime when the swell is big on the south shore, he will get up before dawn and hit the water with friends or on his own. He needs that, it's his time away from the house, from work, to enjoy the life he's blessed with. I am more...
Living Whole: Eating Real Food
Whole foods. Paleo. Vegan. Vegetarian. Omnivore. All natural. Organic. Non-GMO. Can we agree that eating these days is far more complicated than when we were growing up? I know that it’s often left me feeling defeated, confused and guilty. I see two polarizing sides...
How He Sees Me: Finding Hope in Surrender from an Eating Disorder
“I can eat a little more…I’ll just throw it up later so I don’t gain any weight.” This is how I used to justify my eating disorder a little over ten years ago. It just made me cringe writing and reading that first sentence, how I thought it was okay to eat anything...
20 Kid Friendly Activities on Oahu
Our kids are almost 7 and 8 so we are always on the lookout for places to take them. The easiest thing now that they’re older is to get them down to the beach and let them run wild. But when they were young, the need to get them (and me) out of the house was just as...
Living Whole: How Real Food Revitalized My Family
“Something isn’t right..." It was all I could think. Four years ago, I began experiencing debilitating vertigo, randomly throughout the day. Over the course of a week, I went from stumbling around in the dark to nurse my baby, to the inability to move; a desperate...
Family Love Notes
I had an idea last year while I was changing the kid's calendar to February. I love Valentine's Day, doing fun things as a kid was always a highlight for me. Creating cool mailboxes out of cardboard or leftover cereal containers was one of my favorite memories. So...