The truth is, although I was a bona fide world traveler in my twenties, my thirties have seen me sticking rather closer to home.  As in, we pretty much go to Tahoe and that's about it.  I sometimes look at friends who bundle their tots off to Italian ski resorts and Japanese food capitals and Spanish beaches and think, Huh.  So that's a possibility.  But Tahoe is so close, and, with kids, so fabulously fun and so incredibly easy in that there is so much to do and so little formality.  My parents bought a condo there about ten years ago, and thanks to their generosity we have a little mountain ... [READ MORE]

When Babygirl was a teeny tot, she loved her babies like a real mama.  She lined them up on meticulously smoothed dishtowels.  She wiped their faces shiny-clean with baby wipes, and bundled them up safely in her stroller to roam around the apartment. We always took her aptitude for baby care as assurance that she herself was well-attended-to in daycare, kept clean, warm, and well-fed all day long. When Babygirl turned three a friend emailed me a SALE from the American Girl website.  "These babies never go on sale!" she assured me. I do love me a sale.  And so we acquired Bitty Baby. I ... [READ MORE]