From the monthly archives:

April 2012

Summer Camp Stress Lessened at Camp Galileo

April 30, 2012

As a full time working mom, I need my kid to attend summer camp.  We are lucky to have grandparents in the area that can assist for some mornings or afternoons.  While I’m even more lucky to be able to work from home full-time, the summer time makes is harder for me to do my job.  My [...]

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Disney Store Grand Opening at Valley Fair

April 27, 2012

On Saturday, April 28th, the Disney Store will celebrate the grand opening of the newly designed store at Westfield Valley Fair in Santa Clara.  Guests will have an opportunity to meet Mickey and Minnie Mouse from 12 pm to 4pm. Disney Store’s new design concept aims to deliver “the best 30 minutes of a child’s [...]

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Why I’m Not Participating in Take Your Daughter to Work Day

April 26, 2012

I still remember when I begged and begged my mother to take me to her work on the 1st Annual Take Your Daughter to Work Day.  I didn’t so much care to learn about her job as a nurse at the VA Hospital in Menlo Park.  It was more of the lure of getting to [...]

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Stressed Out By an Opposing Team’s Awful Coach

April 25, 2012

Tonight’s softball game was played partially in the rain, but oddly enough, the rain saved the spirit of the game. The opposing team’s coach is a douche bag. And really, that’s putting it nicely. He’s the guy who yelled at our team for not warming up correctly (on the dirt instead of turf), the guy [...]

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Using Animation to Get Kids Excited About STEM

April 24, 2012

This isn’t about a short with a cute character designed to lure kids into learning math. This is something more straightforward using real life examples of how Pixar uses science and math to develop their movies. This Saturday, Tony DeRose, senior scientist and research group lead at Pixar will give a talk on how math is relevant [...]

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Blaming the Father for Teen’s Suicide is Unfair

April 23, 2012

The news out of Santa Rosa this weekend scared me as a parent. Charlotte Molinari, a missing 15 year old, was found dead of an apparent suicide, with her journal indicating it was a possible romantic rejection that motivated her decision. Drama, rejection, awkwardness, angst, and insecurity come with being a teenager, and I do [...]

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Shake, Rattle, and Rescue at The Tech This Weekend

April 20, 2012

The Tech Challenge is on this Saturday at the 25th annual Tech Challenge. Teams of students in grades 5-12 are asked to find a solution for a real-world problem, with this year’s design challenge theme being Shake, Rattle and Rescue. Participants have spent the past few weeks devising a solution to help earthquake survivors stranded [...]

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Free Mini Photo Session at Classic Kids in Burlingame

April 19, 2012

Coming up in time for Mother’s Day, Classic Kids in Burlingame is hosting a design event with Serena and Lily, a nursery and home decor company, but in between browsing furniture and design ideas, kids, moms, and moms-to-be can have a free mini session from Classic Kids Photography. The event is May 5, but advance [...]

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Cloth Diapers vs. Disposables – Does Anyone Really Care?

April 18, 2012

On Saturday, April 21 dozens (maybe hundreds) of families will turn up in Campbell to participate in The Great Cloth Diaper Change.  It’s a worldwide effort to break the Guinness World Record it set last year when more than 5,000 babies made the change to cloth diapers in an effort to promote more eco-friendly alternatives to plastic disposable diapers. [...]

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AYSO Soccer Sign Up Time: One Kid Steps Back

April 17, 2012

This weekend marked the start of AYSO sign ups in the town where we play. I printed out my forms online – why they don’t allow us to pay and be done with it online is beyond me – and headed in about an hour after signups began. The place was hopping, but the wait [...]

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