Category: LIFE & FAMILY

What a way to end the year!!

f you follow this blog you know 2011 was a very tough year, so after a difficult holiday season I’m happy to say it ended with a slam dunk! We were invited to view the Times Square New Year’s Eve event from the production offices. I’ve always wondered why over a million New Yorkers squeeze in to Times Square on New Year’s Eve and freeze. Well I wonder no more. It was the most magical New Years eve in memory…It didn’t make matters worse that a couple of minutes after we arrived Luke was approached and asked if he would like to be interviewed by Jenny Mc Carthy on live TV. So we spent the evening right below Ryan Seacrest (in case you watched Dick Clark’s New Year’s eve on abc) and got to partake in what Luke calls an “epic” night.

It started with almost an hour walk through a “Christmas like” NY with several hundred thousand people…READ MORE What a way to end the year!!

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The things we do….

I don’t know how many of you are single working moms… There are days when you try really hard to get everything done, but at the end of the day you’re just not enough. Michelle Pfeiffer’s harried character in “One Fine Day” comes to mind…This week… first my back went out, my office is not done, Lily a my new assistant started, we’ve been loading the new look on to site but annoying tech problems have made it difficult (Don’t you HATE tech problems?) I’ve gone from designing rooms, to designing a ball dog feeder with Luke for his Invention Convention, I’ve left meetings to be there for his school performances (Mom how did you do it with three kids?), canceled meetings to run Luke to the doctor. And finally, when asked to film a design tip for a TV show (which I tried to fit in last night), I had to ask Luke to be the camera guy (because styling was not right in previous footage) , and of course I had to film him mocking me talking about design. Wish I was allowed to share the hilarious tape…

Well sometimes we try…maybe too hard.READ MORE The things we do….

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Close to my heart….

This week is a special week for me as our annual Knock Out event is this Thursday.

18 years ago(!) this week my friend Cheryl Masri and I had a desire to do something to help women. At the time I had two friends who found themselves in severely abusive relationships. One friend was thrown out of a car after being beaten so hard her husband broke his arm beating her, another one was locked in a closet after being beaten with a chair. They were stories of violence I never thought imaginable. So Cheryl and I set out on a quest to rally women to help fund shelters for victims of domestic violence, women with no place to go when their lives were in danger. We wanted create an organization that gave women a place to join together in support of other women.READ MORE Close to my heart….

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Good Luck Mom!

Finally the day has come….My sweet little mom is full filling one of her long standing dreams this weekend. She is flying off to Kathmandu with a friend to trek around the base camps of the Himalayas. For five days my mom and her friend, two fit ladies in their seventies will hike from camp to camp. And I have to admit I’m nervous! I want her to be safe! I know I’m probably ridiculous… I’m so proud of her and so inspired that she is taking this trip. She always says she wants memories and adventures…not things. She’s bringing a digital camera and has promised some blog posts about her travels on LiveLikeYou as soon as she returns.

We get so stuck in our daily patterns, with work and school and responsibilities, and we forget sometimes there’s a whole wide world out there with amazing things to show us.READ MORE Good Luck Mom!

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Roadtrip via Iphone.

Life is short. We often forget it. We’re too tired, we’re too busy, we’re trying to getting everything on our to do list done, too much work, too little time…so we don’t do the things we really would like to do. There are weekend soccer games, responsibilities around the house, deadlines at work…really always something that has to be done. I’ve made a commitment to myself to have more fun, not be workaholic, and to participate in life more! So this weekend when Luke had four days off, we took to the road….READ MORE Roadtrip via Iphone.

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