I am at a whole new level of sleep deprivation today, only comparable to the month when the baby was a newborn and I had just started back to work. I was on a conference call overseas until 2, only to get up with the baby a mere 3 hours later. I feel like I am playing a game now of how much coffee I can drink without falling asleep with my head in the cup.

Tottering around on sky-high stilettos may be stylish, but, with baby in tow it's hardly an easy (or safe) feet - oops, make that feat! Though perhaps not so glam, these wood-heeled wedges are a stylish compromise between form and function, and won't have you pulling a Britney, with disastrous results.

A lot of parents that I talk to don't follow trends when dressing their kids. It's easy to forgo with the abundance of hand-me-downs in the market, but it doesn't have to be shunned. There are a lot of trends now that are really easy to work into your kids' existing wardrobes. 

For the month of April, I am making a conscious effort to focus on all things green.  Today’s green feature will be about going greener effortlessly with your personal care and beauty items.  I’ve blogged about sample boxes before (I’m kind of a beauty product junkie, if you couldn’t tell) and I find them to be an affordable way to try out a large variety of products. As a busy mom, I think they are also convenient because they save me time researching new items and running all over to specialty stores trying to find them.

Most mornings I take the task of dressing my daughter before she leaves for daycare because I think it's fun to pick out her little clothes each day. Yesterday I was running late so I had to leave the task her dad and I quickly realized that I needed to teach my husband how to dress a little girl. It's easy to forget how confusing the rules of girls fashion can be to a man.

Since there are so few practicing Catholics in my generation, my own mother did double duty at my daughter’s baptismal ceremony as grandmother and godmother.  I found the perfect gift for her, a pair of gold studded, cranberry colored Ugg sandals complete with the signature tuft of Australian wool in the foot-bed.

If you were a really unfortunate member of my gym two year ago, you might have seen a glimpse of my protruding tomato-colored belly before I ducked into the locker room. For the last ten weeks of my pregnancy in 2010, I sported an orange-red, size ten tankini during my mile or so swims.  I purchased the unflattering tankini at a great discount, probably for less than twenty dollars.

What better time of the year to go green than on St. Patrick’s Day! Which was also the perfect time for me to try out the goodies from my White Apricot Green Grab Bag.

What is it?

White Apricot’s Green Grab Bag is a monthly beauty sample subscription service with a twist: all items are natural, organic and vegan. For $15 a month, you get a completely green bag full of different guilt-free beauty items to try.

I've almost completely cleared the DVR in our bedroom this week after being taken down by the flu bug and while catching up on Project Runway All Stars I heard a line from Isaac Mizrahi on episode 4 that made me a little mad. Kara Janx made a dress that the judges thought resembled a maternity dress because of its tiers and proportions. Isaac said:

“It’s only hair you know,” I told my mother in law last week. She had agreed to watch my daughter during my hair appointment at the mall, even though she was helping her mother in law plan her father in law’s funeral. My daughter’s great grandpa, a WWII Naval Veteran had passed away a few days before my hair appointment. I was worried that my mother in law had sped from the church to the mall for the sake of my highlights.