My Favorite Brush for Beach Hair

Also Read: Is Magic Sleek Worth the $$$?! Not only do my kids love The Wet Brush Detangler, I do to!  I bought it for my daughters to make brushing their long hair less painful, but then tried it on my own hair and loved it. It has super flexible bristles that detangle hair  without pulling or breaking hair–even after a day […]

5 Essentials for the Beach…All Under $100

Sitting on the beach is heaven. Trekking your stuff to and from…can be hell. But these 5 things have made our trips to the beach easier–4 of which we have owned and abused for 4 years and they are still going strong! 1. My Beach Umbrella: Sport-Brella XL Portable All-Weather Sun Umbrella, $59 I love staying […]

35 Books You Said You’d Read Again

Summer is here and if you’re like us, you’re looking for a good summer read for the pool or beach. So we asked our readers to name books that they loved so much they’d read them again. Have one to add? Let us know!  Here are books we’d read again: 1. To Kill a Mockingbird 2. The […]

Our Picks: Fruit-Infusing Water Bottle

Give your water a little kick with oranges, lemons, berries, apples or whatever fruit flavor you love. This fruit-infusing water bottle allows you to put any combo of fruit or veg or both into the center to add a little flavor to your water–without the mess of pulp, seeds and rind making clean up easy. The Infusion Fruit Infusion Water Bottle is $17.   […]

Tips For Getting Out Sweat Stains

Save your whites from summer and stress stains!

How I Got Tix for an Amazing Broadway Show…for $49.

I’d heard about Broadway Roulette before and decided to give it a shot. You go online, pay $49/ticket and choose a date when you’d like to see the show. The day of, they “spin the wheel” and choose the show for you. Around 9am, I got a text message: We won 4 great seats together in the […]

Beauty Secrets: Is Goat’s Milk the Cure for Puffy, Tired Eyes?

So is goat’s milk the secret to reducing puffy eyes? It is for me. I was out looking for new lip color and stumbled on this: Kate Somerville Goat Milk De-Puffing Eye Balm. I seriously looked like crap because I’d had a terrible night’s sleep. The woman at the counter rolled it under my eyes […]

Feeling the Pressure to Get a Dog? Here’s Why We Got Cats.

  Also Read: Babies & Dogs 101 Why We Adopted Not One—but Two–Cats. Ridgewood is a dog town. No one talks about their cats, turtles rabbits or birds. And lately, the pressure has been on. My kids were convinced that we were the last dogless family in Ridgewood. Even moms who had sworn they’d never get a […]