Now that Labor Day has come and gone, it is officially fall fashionwise. No more white pants or white shoes, no more linen or seersucker. I know things have loosened up a bit in recent years regarding when wearing white is acceptable, but I tend to stick to the old school fashion rules, as my [...]

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I have been waiting for weeks for today’s post because I feel I can now comfortably tell you all about the new UK-based maternity line Slacks & Co. Slacks & Co. is the maternity designer we’ve all been waiting for because they are pursuing an extraordinarily brave business plan and making high-end maternity trousers exclusively. [...]

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When it becomes time for all of you to shop for nursingwear, I am happy to say that there is now a good selection of nursing T-shirts and nursing camisoles out there from which to choose. When I was first shopping for nursingwear just four years ago, there wasn’t near the selection there is now. [...]

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Many reasons to celebrate today as my sister, Jane, gave birth to a healthy baby girl at 8:21am this morning in Greenwich, Connecticut.  Reilly Jane weighed in at 7 lbs, 7 ozs and is doing wonderfully. Her four male cousins celebrated far, far away in Jerusalem with a pizza party at their favorite local restaurant [...]

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I have been a terribly delinquent blogger these past few days and I am so sorry.  I will not torture all of you with stories of what it is like to be staying in a hotel suite with three jetlagged toddlers and one jetlagged baby.  Suffice it to say, there is not a lot of [...]

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Caroline’s asked me to post a quick note to let everyone know that our fourth son arrived safely on Sunday in Jerusalem.  Caroline went in for a relatively routine scan and check-up, and decided to stay a while.

Leighton was born just after 3 pm at 8 lbs 10 ozs.   Caroline and Leighton are both [...]

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Oh no!  So many of you emailed me this morning about the Yummie Tummie sample sale but the boutique at Ruelala is completely sold out already.  My apologies to those of you who emailed me, but didn’t get to shop it.  I did find a 20% off sale on Yummie Tummie going on right now [...]

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It’s been an exciting week for us here in Jerusalem, as our two-year-old son James has finally started talking. It seems to be very true what I hear from other moms–one day, he’ll just come out with a bunch of words and you’ll wonder why he was so quiet for so long.  There is one [...]

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After three successive pregnancies, and almost three consecutive years spent in my maternity/nursing wardrobe, I am desperately looking for maternity clothing that is different.  My expectations are low–I don’t expect it to mirror what designers are showing on the runways or replicate what the teen actresses are wearing in Us Weekly, but I just want [...]

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I am just back from a very quick business trip to New York City, where I was able to find just a little bit of free time to do some shopping.  I checked in on a few maternity boutiques and made a very important discovery…Michael Stars (aka, Michael Cohen, the founder of Michael Stars) [...]

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