From the monthly archives:

March 2012

Turn Out the Lights Saturday For an Earth Hour

March 30, 2012

My kids look forward to Earth Hour each year, even though it’s past their bedtimes. It’s the one hour a year when people are encouraged to turn off their lights in an effort to make a global statement about climate change and to support environmentally sustainable action. Earth Hour is this Saturday from 8:30 – [...]

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Sakura: Teppanyaki Comes to Redwood City

March 29, 2012

You may not know what teppanyaki means, but you likely know Benihana, which has made teppanyaki famous. Teppanyaki essentially means cooked on an iron plate, but I would describe this to my kids in a much more basic way by saying, “it’s when they cook the food right in front of you.” My kids get [...]

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Pink Slime #SwapMeat at Fresh & Easy

March 28, 2012

About two years ago, I made the decision that we would eat less meat.  More vegetarian nights.  Less red meat.  I also promised my family that the meat we did eat would be higher quality.  Organic, if possible.  Without antibiotics, always.  The money that we would save by eating less meat would quickly be spent [...]

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Future Olympians Swimming at Far Westerns

March 27, 2012

My son, a year round swimmer, wants to be the next Michael Phelps.  While it would be awesome to have an Olympian in the family, I can’t help but think of Phelps’s mother and the sacrifices that she must have made to help make his dreams come true.  The multiple practices a day.  The carpooling.  [...]

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Rain, Rain, Go Away on Game Day

March 26, 2012

The first rain out was March 17. I was rooting for it: a day without baseball and softball, that happened to be my birthday. It was lovely. The second rain out was March 21, which again opened our day in a positive way, but now the thought of make up games, and the complications of [...]

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Take Me Out to the (Stanford) Ballgame

March 23, 2012

I can’t really explain it, but Spring has me falling in love with baseball. Ok, maybe it’s not so much Spring as my kindergartener who just started Little League, but the sunshine and longer days sure don’t hurt. So a couple weeks ago, on a beautiful Friday evening, I packed a picnic and hauled my [...]

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Missing: Sierra LaMar

March 22, 2012

Sierra LaMar’s mother is living my worst nightmare.  Her teenage daughter is missing.  On her way to school last Friday, she sent a text and then disappeared.  Police have found her cell phone. They didn’t find Sierra.  A teenager without a cell phone makes everyone believe that foul play is involved. I know that it [...]

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Five Steps to Take Before Giving Your Kid an Old iPad

March 21, 2012

Before the new iPad went on sale, there was a lot of talk about buy backs, specifically which companies were offering the best prices for your old iPad. This seems like the solution for people without kids because everyone I know who upgrades to a new iPad, hands their old one. Sometimes a spouse gets [...]

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Getting Ready for Spring Soccer, Hoping She’ll Fall in Love

March 20, 2012

The weekends of my youth were spent on the soccer field. I played on a team that traveled a lot and I loved it. I married a man who loved soccer just as much as I did, so how could our daughter not love soccer? When LG was little, we spent a lot of time [...]

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Getting your soccer fix in Silicon Valley — the San Jose Earthquakes

March 19, 2012

Our family is soccer mad.  My husband grew up in the UK, where soccer (or football, as it’s more commonly known) is the national pastime, and he carried his love of the sport halfway across the world when he moved to the Silicon Valley.  I had always been mildly interested in soccer, especially when the [...]

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