Coast 2 Coast Mom

Disney.com Create Adds Artistic Collaborative Features & Fun

Last week Disney.com added more features to its popular Create site, which offers kids, tweens and teens an online canvas to create and share their own imaginative Disney character artwork. Now, a new "Group Wall" adds interactivity and collaboration to the site by allowing you to submit your own original Disney artwork in the form of an evolving online mosaic, in addition to its searchable online galleries of original art where people can search by artist, character and make comments. We played around with it yesterday, and Li'l Boo liked watching the Group Wall transform as more artwork was added... Read more →

Relying on Each Other for Happiness

This post is inspired by Laura Munson's This Is Not The Story You Think It Is . . .A Season of Unlikely Happiness, this month's book club choice for the virtual book club From Left to Write. I received a copy of this book as a participant in the group. We've lived far from family for over a decade now - not just a town or state away - but a necessary flight or full day's drive away. When we relocated from Michigan to California, my mom's words still echo in my mind that I shouldn't be too sad or... Read more →

GIVEAWAY: 4 Tickets to Walking with Dinosaurs at MSG

Oh! Oh!! As if US attending Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular at Madison Square Garden wasn't enough excitement for us this week, I'm hosting a one-day giveaway for one lucky family to attend too! A family four-pack of tickets is up for grabs today for the 3 p.m. matinee show on Wednesday, July 21, 2010. That's right - your entire family can marvel at the heart-pounding roars, and life-like movements of the 17 life-size dinosaurs, based on the award-winning BBC television series. I know that Li'l Boo can't wait to see it himself. Not that you'll need it,... Read more →

On My Way to the Yahoo! Mother Board Summit

Today I'm flying to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend the Yahoo! Mother Board Summit. All of us Mother Board members were invited to Sunnyvale to meet with some of the working moms at Yahoo! and to discuss some topics like online safety, Flickr photo and video sharing for our blogs, and advertising among other things. I'm excited to be back in the Bay Area again and I'm stoked to meet some of the other YMB members from around the country! It does feel weird to be going to that neighborhood, though without c2cDad . . . I hope... Read more →

Spectacular Macy's July 4th Aboard the Norwegian Epic Cruise Ship

WOW. It's July 6th and we're still coming down from the high of our super swanky Fourth of July night. We were so excited about the event that we cut short our vacation in Michigan to awake at 3:30 a.m. on July 4th and drive back to NYC to make the party. Oh, and we splurged on a new DSLR camera so we could take better photos of the fireworks (so excuse the abundance of photos here, we had to practice!). You see, Macy's, Inc. invited us to celebrate the Fourth of July right on the Hudson River aboard the... Read more →

The Curse and Privilege of Having A Daughter

This post is inspired by this month's From Left to Write book club choice, If You Knew Suzy by Katherine Rosman. I received a copy of this book as a participant in the From Left to Write virtual club. As with the majority of the books I purchase (or read for this book club), I pass them along to my mom, a sister, or friend - whomever I think would like it most. I have so many people whom I think would LOVE this book that I'm considering ordering a case. Having JUST returned from the Metro Detroit area to... Read more →

Cooking and Baking with Stonyfield Yogurt

Last week I had the pleasure of attending a cooking demonstration at the De Gustibus Cooking School at Macy's Herald Square with green nutritionist Kate Geagan, MD. I learned some of the healthy benefits of substituting organic yogurt or Greek yogurt for other ingredients like sour cream, mayonnaise or oil in recipes. I got to watch Kate cook up some delicious Tangerine-Maple Yogurt glazed chicken and tasted her roasted red pepper cold soup, salmon spread, blueberry muffin, and my favorite, pot de creme - all "healthified." with Stonyfield yogurt. Check out part of her cooking demonstration in the video below... Read more →