Maintaining friendships when you are a mama can be a tricky business. Often already juggling a hectic home life, work and children, while also trying to carve out a bit of time with Daddy-o, can leave little room for your girlfriends. The way I see…

As you can see, we Mabel gals take our blogging conferences VERY seriously! Just back from BlogHer ’10 in New York City and quite frankly am feeling like I need a bit of a holiday. So much squealing and excitement on the first night left me with…

my mother in law passed last week, and we are having the funeral later this week. we all have something to wear, but i wonder about my 18 month old daughter. i went to 3 different stores, and could not find a summer black dress. some people told me…

Two years ago, our family sponsored a child in Costa Rica named Oscar Mario. He was the chosen one for very specific reasons – at the time, our family was a bit light in the boy department so we thought a male would even things out nicely. My eldes…