Sandy's Motherhood Blog: Food, Fun, Fashion

In anticipation of today’s photo, over the past few days I’ve been keeping my eyes open for a particularly interesting, funny, or photogenic...

One of the amazing things about human vision is how different something looks from far away than it does close up. Sometimes seeing someth...

When I first saw the assignment “On Your Plate,” I thought about it quite literally. I imagined a photograph of either a beautiful gourmet...

Empty is a word often associated with sadness and loss. Synonyms for empty are words like lacking, devoid, missing, absent, gone, depleted...

Morning usually comes quite early in a household with small children, and today was no exception. In a way,  morning came multiple times t...

A friend of mine has been doing a monthly photo-a-day challenge, and she recently posted the list of photos for June. I decided to take on...

Rating, judging, scoring. People love to put a numerical value on things. As early as kindergarten – or even preschool – we get a report c...

When you’re a new mom, everyone and their mom wants to give you advice. Do this, don’t do that. Don’t do this, do that. You’ll get so much...

With a title like “Play Nice” in a blog that’s mainly about motherhood, you would think that this blog entry would be about teaching my ch...

My husband is a huge fan of Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss. Geisel was a fellow Dartmouth alum and a member of my husband’s fraternity, ...

There are times when your kids totally build up your self-esteem and puff up your ego. Like when my son sees me wearing lipstick or a dres...

I spotted an article in Slate Magazine this morning about cooking with children: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2012/03/childre...

For those of you unfamiliar with theatrical lingo, the expression “Going up” refers to putting on a show. It also happens to be the title ...

Today, the website salary.com posted their annual estimation of what a stay at home mom’s work is worth ( http://www.salary.com/mom-payche...

Yesterday, a dear friend of mine from college passed away, leaving a young teen daughter. This is an open letter I wrote for her. My dear...