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Why I Said Goodbye to Glamazon Diaries After Almost 20 Years
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Why I Said Goodbye to Glamazon Diaries After Almost 20 Years

If You Googled “Glamazon Diaries” and Landed Here. You’re exactly where you’re supposed to be. After nearly 20 years — 19, to be exact — I closed the chapter on Glamazon Diaries and relaunched as…

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Style Meets Comfort in This NYC Apartment Tour
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Style Meets Comfort in This NYC Apartment Tour

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8 Essential Items to Always Keep in Your Handbag
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8 Essential Items to Always Keep in Your Handbag

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Paris in the Fall: an Insider’s Guide
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Paris in the Fall: an Insider’s Guide

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Current Obsession: Neutral Greys and Nudes
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Current Obsession: Neutral Greys and Nudes

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The Best Places to Find Stylish Small-Space Furniture
Daily Looks · Living

The Best Places to Find Stylish Small-Space Furniture

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Don’t let comparison be the thief of joy and your Don’t let comparison be the thief of joy and your motherhood experience. #motherhood
Head, shoulders, knees, and toes is doing more for Head, shoulders, knees, and toes is doing more for my four-month-old than anything I’ve bought him. Here’s what’s actually happening:

My voice is the lesson. He’s not catching the words, he’s catching the sounds. Melody makes it easier for a baby’s brain to hear where one word ends and the next begins. Singing is basically slowed-down, exaggerated speech — exactly what babies learn from best.

Repetition is how it sticks. Same song, same order, every time. After enough rounds, he starts to know what’s coming. That’s his first taste of prediction — a big deal for a brain building expectations about how the world works.

Touch plus words = meaning. When I tap his head on “head,” I’m linking a sound to a sensation to a body part. That’s how words start attaching to real things. It’s building body awareness too, which feeds coordination later.

And the biggest one: he’s watching my face, hearing my voice, feeling my hands. I sing, he kicks, I laugh, he coos. That back-and-forth loop is the foundation of secure attachment. The song is almost the excuse. The connection is the point.

The rhyme and rhythm are also quietly laying groundwork for reading, years from now.

But honestly? He’s delighted and so am I. That’s reason enough.

Save this for the 3pm stretch when you’re out of ideas and running on four hours of sleep. And send it to the mom in your life who thinks she isn’t doing enough — she is. 🤍

What song does your baby actually respond to? I’m building a rotation.

#newbornactivities #babydevelopment #postpartumlife #newmomtips
It’s ok to pivot instead of staying in the same pl It’s ok to pivot instead of staying in the same place to make others feel comfortable. Growth and change are good for the soul even if they are challenging. #motherhood
Cheers to Five 🥂👩🏾‍❤️‍👨🏻 We started over martinis Cheers to Five 🥂👩🏾‍❤️‍👨🏻

We started over martinis —
two glasses, low light, no idea
we were writing the first line
of the rest of our lives.
Somewhere between that first drink
and this one, ordinary Friday,
we built something neither of us
could’ve toasted to back then —
a family, a home,
a life we’re still building,
one quiet morning and one loud laugh at a time.

And if I had another life to spend,
I’d spend it walking toward you again.
I wouldn’t need to think it over twice.
Let the years come however they come —
I’d choose this same road every time.
Everything else wears down. Not this. Not you.
Every road I’ve ever imagined
still ends here.
 
#wewillwewillrabioux

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