This is a photo of my little girl.  When I saw this photo for the first time I gasped out loud… she isn’t so little anymore.  Isn’t it funny how the photo of your children that you carry in your mind is always about 2 years behind the reality. It’s summer-time now and every summer [...]

For 10 years I was a corporate geek, for 12 years I have been a Mother, for 4 years I have been an entrepreneur – based on that diverse background I feel very qualified and confident when I proclaim this… There is NO SUCH THING as multi-tasking.  For years we have been told that, if [...]

I find myself slipping in to daydreams as the summer creeps toward us. Dreams of wonderful days spent bonding with Emily, going on picnics, doing fun crafts, visiting interesting places. The truth is that these dreams aren’t very realistic. Emily travels a lot during the summer visiting Grandparents, plus her annual visit to some of [...]

When my sister and I worked together during the early crazy Holiday seasons, we would sometimes start our day with a visit to Dunkin’ Donuts for a coffee (and OK maybe donuts for her and the little ones, but not for gluten-free me). This visit definitely did not fit in with our pledge to thrift [...]

I got so sucked in to this article on raising socially intelligent children.  The article outlines 5 skills that we as Parents should be focusing on teaching our children to boost their social intelligence.  In the article the writer talks about how important it is to focus on your child’s social intelligence skills because kid’s [...]

Here’s a wonderful guest post from one of our fabulous customers, Ann Root.  Please comment below.  If you would like to guest post on Raising American Girls we would love to hear from you. _______________________________________ I’ve recently rekindled my love affair with fitness. I was ready to start making fitness part of my daily routine, [...]

I don’t know about you but sometimes I find it very difficult to focus.  As a Mom, Wife, Business Owner, etc… I suffer greatly from what Zen calls “the monkey mind”.  My brain won’t stop talking and jumps quickly from thought to thought as a monkey jumps from tree to tree.  I hate it when [...]

Last week we posted a crochet pattern and got lots of requests for links to more free 18 inch doll knitting patterns – especially from all of our Facebook fans. This one is From Lois’ Hands.  A knitting pattern for a gorgeous sweater that will fit your 18 Inch doll (like the American Girl ® doll).

You would think that since I work from home that I would be fabulously organized when it comes to domestic matters. After all – I am sitting right next to my kitchen all day. How hard can it be to think ahead; evaluate the contents of the fridge, take something out to defrost, plan the [...]

Emily Rose just celebrated her 12th birthday.  Now that she is getting older one of the things I miss is having a “theme birthday party”.  Don’t get me wrong we still have a great time on Emily’s birthday.  But long gone are the days of slaving over creating a “Blue’s Clue’s cupcake cake” or spending [...]