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Let’s Go On A Road Trip

May 8, 2015

Alright, the itinerary has been finalized.

We started out all "let's go to New Orleans! Let's go to Montana! Let's see EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD!" And then plugged all our dream destinations into a road trip planner and realized that those little "detours" that are only an inch or so long on the map amount to eight hundred extra hours in a car with two small children. And our kids are good in cars, but no kids are eight hundred hours of good in cars.

Fair enough: straight across America it is. We hit most of our must-sees that way anyway.

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Links & Love & Stuff

May 7, 2015

textile reupholstery fabric exotic rustic

In my interview over on Ideel, we talked superpowers, how to be a parent and still get dressed, and my mother's day wish list. Fun stuff. (Check it out here.)

Well this would pretty much save my life every single day, all summer long. (Boston's Public Sunscreen Dispenser Is Absolute Genius For Forgetful Moms, via Mommyish.)

Even if you have a beard, you (probably) don't have poop on your face. (I just love that the word "poop" is in the title of a Washington Post article.) (No, Your Beard Isn't Full Of Poop, via The Washington Post.)

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What’s Bigger

May 6, 2015

West Hollywood, 2004

I know it's common to be scared of death, but I'm paralyzed by it. I can't think about it, can't entertain the idea of it, and certainly can't talk about it, because talking means feeling and feeling is too much. I wish I was all zen and wise and brave about something that I have dealt with in the past, and am going to have to deal with more and more as time goes on, but I'm not.

Take my dogs, for example: I'm going to outlive them. Those are deaths that I'm going to have to deal with - and likely in the not-too-distant future - no matter how much I dread them and try to pretend otherwise. But I always figured that when the day arrives that something happens to one of my dogs, I will fall to pieces, and will need to hand the reins of dealing with the logistics off to someone better-equipped than I (which would be anyone).

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Last-Minute Mother’s Day Gifts (All Under $100)

May 5, 2015

Mother's Day is one of those holidays that always used to take me by surprise.

All of a sudden it's The Day Before, and oops, now I'm doing a mad dash to find the one place in all of New York City that's not completely booked for brunch and running around to every store in town to find something that isn't a candle (or at least is a very cool candle). Now that I'm a mother, of course, I know EXACTLY when Mother's Day is and am very, very, keenly aware of each moment that it draws closer, because it is MY DAY.

MINE.

And it involves sleep, and the in-bed delivery of bacon.

Lifestyle

How To Find The Right Broker

May 5, 2015

Anyone out there on the hunt for a broker?

...In the South Bay, specifically?

I know quite a lot of you are at this very moment answering a resounding (and vaguely depressed) "yes" to this question, because whoa have I ever gotten a lot of "THIS IS THE WORST NO BUT SERIOUSLY JORDAN IT'S THE WORST" emails lamenting the disaster that is real-estate purchasing in Silicon Valley. So: I thought I would pass on my recommendation. As miserable as it was trying to buy a house in what might very well be the hottest market that has ever existed anywhere, at any time, for all eternity...Kirsten Reilly and Fran Papapietro of Sereno Group made it better.

I'm a very, very big believer in the wonder that is finding a broker who's the right fit for you - to this day, I'm close friends with the woman who helped us find our Tarrytown house - and think it's all about finding that balance between someone you want speaking on your behalf (because they will be, and in very emotionally and financially weighty situations), and finding someone who you straight-up want to spend time with. Because you will be spending a LOT of time with them, and things will get very personal between you. (My brokers know everything from my income to what my kids are into at the moment to why Kendrick and I had that fight that one time, because I had it while sitting in a car next to one of them. Like I said: things get personal.)

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