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September 28, 2012June 30, 2024 Blog bilingual books, Featured, Latina, Lifestyle, milk giveaway, Parenting, Reviews, spanish english books, walmart gift card giveaway

Las Olas de La Luna (The Waves on the Moon) and Milk Giveaway

Las Olas de La Luna (The Waves on the Moon) and Milk Giveaway

Bedtime at my house usually involves my two boys running around the dining room table yelling that they’re not tired. Like I

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September 27, 2012June 30, 2024 Blog Latina, Lifestyle, obama 2012, Reviews, samuel l jackson obama, wake the fuck up obama ad

Samuel L. Jackson Obama Ad

Samuel L. Jackson Obama Ad

This video is too awesome not to share. As you can tell from the title there is some swearing. But it’s time

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September 14, 2012June 30, 2024 Blog Featured, getting kids to sleep, Latina, milk before bed, Parenting, Reviews, sleep

It's Time To Go To Sleep

It's Time To Go To Sleep

One of my claims to fame with my circle of friends was that I could get my kids to go to bed

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August 31, 2012June 30, 2024 Blog angela santomero, daniel tiger app, daniel tiger's neighborhood, daniel tiger's neighborhood app for iphone, joanne rogers, mr rogers, Parenting, Reviews

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood on PBS KIDS Premieres Sept. 3, 2012

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood on PBS KIDS Premieres Sept. 3, 2012

“Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood” premieres Monday on PBS KIDS. Daniel Tiger was inspired by “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” as you may have guessed by

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August 17, 2012June 30, 2024 Blog coraline, ghost stories, kids movies, Latina, paranorman review, Reviews

Paranorman Review

Paranorman Review

The movie “ParaNorman” hits movie theaters today. My boys and I knew about the movie months ago because of all of the

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August 14, 2012June 30, 2024 Los Angeles butterfly pavilion, craig bartlett, dinosaur train, Featured, Lifestyle, natural history museum los angeles, Reviews

Dinosaur Train at The Natural History Museum

Dinosaur Train at The Natural History Museum

This week is the beginning of “Big Big Dinosaur Week” on PBS Kids and to kick it off PBS SoCal brought Buddy

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August 10, 2012June 30, 2024 Blog arturo trejo, Internet Safety, Parenting, pbs parents, Reviews

PBS Parents' Internet Safety Videos Not Just Good Information; Very Entertaining

PBS Parents' Internet Safety Videos Not Just Good Information; Very Entertaining

Here is one of the videos from PBS Parents’ Internet Safety series. Great information and funny enough that your kids will watch

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June 30, 2012June 30, 2024 Los Angeles dynamic you, Fitness giveaway, fitness studio west los angeles, giveaway, gym west los angeles, Lifestyle, personal training west los angeles, Reviews, west Los angels giveaway

Dynamic You Fitness – A West Los Angeles Workout Studio

Dynamic You Fitness – A West Los Angeles Workout Studio

I love to work out, but I’m not a fan of the gym. That’s not true; I’m not a fan of big

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June 27, 2012June 30, 2024 Blog el paso positivo, Featured, Gluten Free, Latina, milk shakes, positivismo, real california milk, Reviews, toma leche

El Paso Positivo Block Party

El Paso Positivo Block Party

  This is the summer of getting fit and what better way to get fit than to dance? My boys are always

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June 11, 2012June 30, 2024 Blog disneyland half marathon, Latina, Lifestyle, Reviews, tinkerbell half marathon, tinkerbell half marathon goes on sale today, women's half marathon

Tinkerbell Half Marathon

Tinkerbell Half Marathon

This past January, I was lucky enough to see Tinkerbell fly, run several miles through Disneyland at night after the park was

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June 7, 2012June 30, 2024 Blog book of spells, e3, jk rowling, playstation, ps3, Reviews, wonderbook

PlayStation Wonderbook Is A Must For Harry Potter Fans

PlayStation Wonderbook Is A Must For Harry Potter Fans

Sony PlayStation unveiled what I think is their most amazing game this week at E3. It’s the Wonderbook for PS3 and it

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Instead of staying up last night reading about all Instead of staying up last night reading about all the f-d up things going on in the world, I listened to podcasts about all the f-d up things in the world while I made For Goodness Cakes 🎂 🧁s.  It was my first attempt at cookies and cream and glad I researched what to do before I made it. I used boxed cake mix and subbed whipped egg whites for whole eggs to counter the denseness of the cookie crumbs and milk for water (I don’t remember why). For the strawberry frosting, I used cream cheese and whipping cream along with the butter, powdered sugar and dehydrated strawberries so the frosting wouldn’t be too sweet with the cookie crumbs. At first I thought this kid’s request for strawberry cake with Oreos cookies and cream and strawberry cream frosting was 🤮 but now I think she’s a culinary genius. It’s was so good I’m going to make it again but gluten free.
Did you know that the Minneapolis shooting that ki Did you know that the Minneapolis shooting that killed two children, injured 17 and traumatized countless others wasn’t the first school shooting this year?

“There have already been four shootings at K-12 schools this school year — not including today’s shooting in Minneapolis. So far in 2025, there have been at least 57 shootings at K-12 schools,” according to Everytown for Gun Safety.

It wasn’t the first Mass Shooting either. There’s been 286. As of today, 833 kids 17 and under were shot and killed, 2,236 were injured. Total number of gun deaths is 9,801 and that doesn’t include suicide. Source: Gun Violence Archive.

I’m sharing this because I don’t know what else to do. We talk and talk about making America safer but America will never be safe when about 1/3 of the country owns a gun (PEW Research). Today’s news will be added to a long list of terrible things that happened this week, this month, this year.
Vegan, vanilla tie dye cake! #losangeles #vegancak Vegan, vanilla tie dye cake! #losangeles #vegancake
I know worse things are happening in Los Angeles, I know worse things are happening in Los Angeles, but kids and young people are going without birthday cakes. I’m an occasional volunteer for the nonprofit For Goodness Cakes, where volunteers bake homemade birthday cakes for kids in foster care and children and young adults overcoming adversity. Since the ICE raids started, one of the participating organizations I’ve baked for has stopped requesting cakes because it’s not safe for their community to pick them up. So kids who are already going through a scary time won’t get the simple pleasure of having birthday cake on their very special day. It’s not the worst thing, but it really sucks.
I wrote about L.A. Taco this week for the Washingt I wrote about L.A. Taco this week for the Washington Post.
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