Shopping Guides

This year for Valentine’s Day, I’ve come up with a long list of gifts that I could get my husband. Of course, I always wait until the last minute, which means some of them are more plausible than others. But I’m determined to really get him something good this year. Unfortunately, there’s not much time left before V-day. Here are my favorite last-minute Valentine’s Day gift ideas for guys. 

I always find it useful when other people share their favorite purchases of the year…

Why is shopping for men so hard? Whether I’m shopping for my brother, husband, dad…

I always knew I’d love celebrating Christmas with our kids, but I never realized how…

One of my favorite parts about the holidays (which is really everything, I’m that person)…

Ok we all know about the Amazon nightgown and the coat (which I’m still debating…

Everyone always talks about how difficult it is to dress when you’re pregnant, but I…

James is turning three in September (tear), which means I’ll not only be shopping for…

I can’t believe I’m already talking about back to school shopping, and yet, it’s here.…

I can’t believe we’re in the final countdown and this pregnancy will soon be over.…

In summer, I basically wear white dresses on repeat. I mean to try more florals…

I’ve been getting a lot of questions asking for my favorite places to shop for…

Every season I invest in a couple really good beach dresses and swim cover-ups. I…

My best friend and I were just lamenting how you can’t find a cute summer…

Finding a good bathing suit when you’re pregnant is about as much fun as drinking…

March has already come in like a lion and there are literally no signs of…

I often get asked for my mom wardrobe essentials – the tried and true items that I can wear to chase around our son and dog and still feel presentable for a play date, playground run-in, or lunch meeting. Even though I love shopping, I work in fashion and live for pretty dresses, you might be surprised to know that I actually don’t have that many clothes in my closet. I try to invest in quality basics that I can wear over and over again, especially now that I’m a mom. Frankly, I just don’t have time to think about what I’m going to wear and I need pieces that are versatile, comfy and yet look put-together. These are the wardrobe staples that as a mom I rely on and wear almost every day.

Unfortunately, with the way retail works these days, it’s the time of year when you have to shop your closet because no one is selling sweaters, coats, boots anymore and while there are some great sales on winter gear, it’s never available in the size you need. Still, I am in need of a winter wardrobe refresh, not summer clothes. So I’ve put together a practical February wish list of items that I want now to refresh my winter wardrobe that I know I’ll wear again next year and a few spring-ish finds that I can wear now and then later when it warms up.

If you get dry, chapped lips in the winter and are constantly applying Chapstick, Kiehl’s or whatever lip balm that doesn’t really work, I am about to change your life. I never had super dry lips until I went on Accutane. (I will write a whole post on that another time, because it was honestly the best thing I ever did and I can’t believe I spent my whole teenage life with acne and didn’t go on it sooner, but that’s another day.) In any event, my lips did get dry as a side effect, and it was horrible. Just the feeling of dry, chapped, peel-y lips is the worst. When my amazing but fancy dermo, who is really the best, but caters to the Park Avenue crowd, said she had a secret weapon to combat my dry lips, I got nervous that it was going to be a pricey balm. And honestly, I would have paid anything at that point for a lip balm that actually worked on dry lips. But then she told me to go to Amazon and order a few tubes of Dr. Dan’s Corti-balm.

I used to think it was silly to buy holiday pajamas…until I had kids. There’s…