Archive for December, 2012
January 2013 Profile: Tina Traster
December 31st, 2012
NAME: Tina Traster AGE: 50 RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Married RESIDENCE: Hudson Valley, New York CHILD’S NAME/AGE: Julia, age 10 I am a writer first. Everything I do and love feeds that. Top among my muses and joys are hiking, photography, movies, swimming, the love of my animals, and of course reading. What led you to become a ...
January Giveaway: Anti-Aging Skin Care, Joey New York
December 31st, 2012
To enter, sign up (in the box at the top of this page) for our Baby Bloomer eZine by January 31st at midnight EST, if you don’t currently receive it. All subscribers are eligible. One lucky winner will be chosen at random the last day of the month and notified ...
GUEST BLOG POST: Parenting Your Way by Jennifer Laurent, author, Heart of a Mom
December 30th, 2012
"EXCERPTS FROM THE HEART OF A MOM" Becoming a parent is something that I was not only excited about, but was completely inspired by. When I became pregnant with my son, I knew that I wanted to parent in a way that was different from the way I had been parented, ...
Home Alone by Sharon O’Donnell
December 29th, 2012
The boys have been home alone over the past several days. That means the our college sons, ages 21 and 18, stayed with our 12-year-old son while my husband and I enjoyed several days away in beautiful St. Petersburg, Florida. But since boys will be boys as they say, we ...
Who’s Training Who? by Heather Bowles
December 29th, 2012
Remember those Saturday night gatherings I've been telling you ladies about? The ones where my husband and I bounce back and forth between entertaining friends and trying to coax our daughter back to sleep, usually unsuccessfully? Even though I've always been a bit of a night owl, I'd be willing ...
NYC Holiday Lights Adventure by Robin Gorman Newman
December 28th, 2012
Even though I'm a New York native, we don't live in NYC, so I love taking tours with my son to experience Manhattan and beyond in a way we might not otherwise. This year, I discovered NY See Tours, and we had an opportunity to take the CHRISTMAS LIGHTS TOUR, and ...
ROBIN’S SHOW RECOMMENDATION: MUMMENSCHANZ
December 28th, 2012
MUMMENSCHANZ has captivated audiences worldwide, and now the renowned Swiss performance troupe is presenting a special holiday engagement for four weeks at NYU Skirball Center in New York City. Recommended for ages 6 and up, the show is a full two-hour program (with intermission), which consists of nearly 30 sketches ...
Santa, Help Me Believe by Dina Ramon
December 27th, 2012
A couple of weeks ago my eight-year-old daughter said to me, ‘Mommy I have something to tell you… this is going to be my last year to visit Santa.’ Of course I was distraught by this comment and when she saw the look on my face, she tried to comfort ...
THE RIDE of Our Lives by Robin Gorman Newman
December 26th, 2012
During school break, I love to explore Manhattan with my son and do some cool stuff....even act as if we're tourists....since we live outside the city. One of our favorite things to do together is to take THE RIDE. At 8:30PM on 12/25, we took THE RIDE, and it was loads ...
Year End Gratitude Moments – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
December 26th, 2012
During the month of November, many people started sharing “gratitude” posts on Facebook, in honor of giving “thanks” since Thanksgiving is an important November holiday. Although many people started their gratitude posts, slowly many dwindled. Some came more sporadically. I understood. I had tried to do the same many times ...
