DIY Holiday Wreaths
Choose your own wreath adventure! By Brenda Ponnay I think the best way to invent a craft is to deconstruct an everyday object and figure out a way to make it better or with different materials. This month I decided to tackle the common Christmas wreath. Little did I know that there are many many many ways to decorate a humble circle into something festive and fun. You don't have to look far to find interesting materials. Most of the

I love New York City most during the Holidays
Remember my 40 Before 40 List? I've been enjoying actually doing the things I have been dreaming about. So, when I was invited by the nice folks representing NBC get a private viewing of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Balloons, I was all over it. #28. Take my son to see the balloons being filled on the eve of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. It was awesome. Me and Spongebob all up close

Gliider Makes Organizing Your Trips Easy & Fun
Gliider is a dandy browser toolkit (works only on Firefox for Macs & PCs, for now) that allows you to organize and store your trip information (via drag & drop functionality) in one central location and then emails it to you in a very pretty PDF form once you're ready to go. We're not just talking about flight and hotel info, but articles and web clippings you have found during your trip preparation, too. More cool functions include being able to ask and collect your Facebook

The First (Post-Baby) Thanksgiving
According to the Very Official Bounce Back Editorial Calendar (translation: a series of Post-Its stuck in a perpetually lost manila folder), this week's topic is Holidays & Newborns & You. For short: Welcome to the SUCK. I've thus been wracking my brain for days now, trying to come up with super-helpful tips about surviving all the upcoming holidays. Scheduling, traveling, entertaining, shopping, or just plain trying to sit down and eat some stupid turkey for without a squawling newborn attached to your boob while your father-in-law clears his throat for the umpteenth time and your teenage nephew keeps TOTALLY STARING AT YOU and your aunt says something about butter and baby weight when al

The Advice Smackdown Holiday Preschooler Gift Guide
You know what? Shopping for a preschool-aged child is easier than shopping for a baby. Because babies are ANNOYING. They are UNIMPRESSED with everything. With toys, books, probably even YOU. Every person who has dangled an expensive European rattle in front of a disinterested three-month-old knows what I'm talking about. Once kids get a little older, it gets more interesting. They LIKE toys. They LIKE holidays and birthdays and are at least a teensy bit more likely to be equally as excited about the actual gift as the box and packaging. I mean, maybe. It's still a crapshoot. Much like this gift guide, which is again, little more than a humbling offering of my particular species of presch