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  • Can’t a mom just poop in peace without the kids literally turning the house upside down?! What you’re looking at is they moved our giant sectional like, four feet from the wall which, in turn, crushed and flipped the playhouse. 💩💩💩💩.
  • One thing I really love doing as a blogger, is getting the opportunity to review children’s books through the Independent Book Publishers Association. Our latest sample is the Easter basket-worthy “It’s Just a Bunnypalooza” by Brenda Faatz and illustrated by Peter Trimarco. We received this book for free to review, but all opinions are my own. “It’s Just a Bunnypalooza,” designed for kids ages 4 to 8, retails in hardback for $11.70 and is available in my Amazon Influencer Shop (affiliate link). LIKES. ▹I appreciate that the book has a strong moral of the story: that it’s cool to just be yourself. ▹This book presents a clever way of introducing some names of classic dances in a fun rhyming theme. It would be a fun read for a “dance mom” family or perhaps a baby ballerina class. (The creators wrote and produced music and scripts for professional children’s theatre prior to this series.) DISLIKES ▹This is the third book in a series that puts emphasis on something being “just so —- ” and it’s my opinion that this theme just doesn’t carry over well into Bunnypalooza. Instead the phrasing just interrupts the storytelling and isn’t visually appealing bc it’s presented in big obnoxious fonts. You can read more about what I mean by this in my full blog review over on my bio link 📚. Overall, though, this is a fun book for littles who love to dance or just be themselves ✌🏻.
  • So .... you know how we work with brands to do toy reviews? Well, this time we did something a little different. Through a collaboration with Ohio-based toy company @thesimplay3company , we were able to review one of the company’s Sharing Libraries by documenting our experience with donating it to our local community! We received one Sharing Library for free in exchange for our review. And what a blast it’s been! The stand, which is installed outdoors, is made of sturdy plastic (just like Simplay3’s popular chunky backyard toys) which makes the Sharing Library great for all types of weather. The box comes in a pretty red color, which is awesome because it matches well with the kids’ museum firehouse theme. 🚒. It’s a good height for kids and it’s door is easy for little hands to open. The @thesimplay3company Sharing Library retails for 149.99 on the Simplay3 website. You can also find it in my Amazon shop! And the best part is ... you can see it in person! The public is now invited to “Take a Book, Share a Book” at the Paso Robles Children’s Museum’s Little Free Library newly installed at 623 13th St. in downtown Paso Robles, Calif.  The box is registered as an official @littlefreelibrary so it shows up on the organization’s map as charter #84178. It’s one of five boxes in our city. When we talk about parenting goals, as a mom I’m usually focused on things like surviving the wrath of my hungry 5 year old and keeping pants on her 3 year old brother. But, you know, I also want to teach the kids to be kind, to share and to generally be good humans. Enter the Sharing Library. Secretly, I had been hiding it a cardboard box in our garage while I found a recipient. But once the kids saw it installed at the museum, I explained the whole thing and they immediately wanted to take a book and leave one behind. And we hope you do, too! @littlefreelibrary is a nonprofit organization that heads up a global movement designed to connect communities through the love for reading and the spirit of generosity. There are 36,000 sharing boxes around the world in 70 countries, according to LittleFreeLibrary.org.
  • These, my friends, are the happy faces of small children unafraid of rinsing their hair at bathtime. #ad. And that’s all thanks to the @nubyusa Tear-Free Rinse Pail. Clocking in at $10.95, this bath time tool features a “Soft Tear Free Comfort Edge” that, I say, 95% keeps the water from hitting your kids eyes if they’re looking up and you put a little pressure downward. It’s available at @meijerstores! #meijer . Lifesaver!! My kids flip their sh*t when it comes to rinsing hair in the bath usually and I can say from experience that they have not while using this pail. You can find it in our Amazon Influencer Shop via my Linktree. ✌🏻
  • My face when I want chocolate but there’s none in the house. . Also, can we all take a moment to honor Clara’s very wise decision to let me do her hair like that? 😂. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Oh wait, no, it’s actually a bird 😂😂😂.
  • 👦🏼“Hey Mommy, guess what?!l 👩🏼 “What’s up, bud?” 👦🏼 “Wook! I’ve been putting all my jammies in my (gross poopy) diaper pail!!” 👩🏼 ...
  • Hotels with no kids is so gangsta 😂. . Hubby and I had our second night away this weekend since the kids have been born! We went to Long Beach with old friends (and some new 💕), ate at Saint & Second and then played Mario in our hotel! The kids had fun at grandma’s house and ate candy and pancakes and played played played. And now my brain is mush after trying to entertain them in the car for three hours on the way home. #worthit
  • Who here has taking baby camping? I’m a wimp, so it’s a big fat no for me. But I really like the IDEA of camping with kids. Maybe with an RV ... or a modest log cabin (with a hot shower) 🤣. . #ad If you’re worried about bugs, @nubyusa makes a set of Mosquito Repellent Clips doused in essential oils, making them nontoxic and safe for adults and children. The package recommends them for home, travel, camping, walking, hiking and overseas travel. They’re small and compact, and look like everyday baby gear. . If you have gone camping with littles ... tell me: where did you go? And was it tent, RV or cabin?! 🌲🐿.
  • For a long time, much of my identity was wrapped up in this daily newspaper. I left it in 2015 and parted ways officially two years later. But it’s one of those places you never truly leave. . Last night, a group of us said goodbye to our newsroom building that was quite literally our second home. The offices are moving to another, smaller location in town. I don’t have all the stats, but I think the newsroom had something like 200 employees at one point and now there’s 30. This is the reality of our times. . But this building, it was so much more than just that. It’s the place of late nights and daily deadlines and the oddly comforting buzz of the police scanner. . The place of election nights (with pizza) and compiling stories of tragedy and community and inspiration. The place of good friends, delightfully weird friends (us journalists are pretty kooky), and just sh*t tons of coffee. . Lunch breaks at Trader’s, morning walks to Starbucks and freakouts over mice, crickets and yes even a bat among us. . The Tribune had been in this custom-designed building for 25 years. I was there 12 of those years and they will always be with me. . Sources sharing stories: confiding in us, yelling at us. Finding the right words night after night to tell stories truthfully and in interesting ways. Getting caught up in the tragedies of breaking news, sitting in hard plastic city council chairs till 2 a.m. and triple checking the spelling of people’s names (they hate that). . It was sad saying goodbye to this building. Again. But even more so, to accept change. The finality of it. But what’s not sad is the never-changing truth that journalists work their butts off for their readers. They care. Like, really really care. And everyone should support their local newspaper. I still do. . Goodbye, South Higuera building, we love you.

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