Does this email make my Inbox look fat?

The amount of email we all receive is bananas.  Some of us get, on average, a hundred emails a day— that’s ONE HUNDRED little demands on our time and attention EACH DAY, just from our computer! (Wasn’t that thing supposed to make life easier?)  Your Inbox is full of critical information, time-sensitive requests and important events… buried under heaps of time-wasting, energy-sucking garbage.

Moms just don’t have the time for this nonsense.  We don’t have hours to peruse long ramblings and write lengthly correspondence.  We’ve got, like, five minutes until Backyardigans is over— we need to get in, get to the good stuff, and get out.

Getting control of your email is a Ninja Mom skill that we ALL need to master.  That’s why I’m doing a special Four-Part Juicebox series entitled Mom Vs. Email, where I will teach you some powerful tools to smackdown your Inbox and show it who’s boss.

Don’t subscribe to the Juicebox? Why on earth not?! Subscribe ASAP, and you’ll get powerful techniques you need to master your email.  (I’ll send you Part One if you ask nicely.)

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I’m on Blog Talk Radio with Lara Galloway!

Lara Galloway is a firehose of amazing information for mompreneurs.  A sweet firehose, with a comforting southern accent and a passion for helping moms build a “sustainable” (as in, you still want to be in business next year!) business makes a mom and her family truly happy.

Lara was kind enough to have me in her WoMEN Teleseminar Series (What Mom Entrepreneurs Need) to talk about my favorite subject— how to get stuff DONE!  Check us out as we explore how to develop Ninja Mom Skills— get faster, more efficient, and more stealth about how you manage your time and meet your personal and professional goals.

I am now in love with radio. Stay tuned…

Click here to listen to the show!

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butternut squash soup with the mar vista mom

On a brisk autumn day, (which, in Los Angeles, means it was about 78 degrees), I met Sarah Auerswald at the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market for some shopping and dishing about motherhood and organic vegetables.  Sarah writes a witty, insightful blog for local moms and beyond called The Mar Vista Mom, and every friday she meets a lucky interviewee to shop and create a recipe made from farmer’s market produce.

I chose butternut squash and made a fabulous fall soup with honey crisp apples and roasted garlic.  This soup couldn’t be easier: My secret is roasting the squash first (means I don’t have to peel and cube those monsters, which I’m FAR too lazy to do).  This picture features two small squash, but the recipe here says to use one large one.  Honestly, you could use as many as you want, as long as you have enough stock or water to cover the scraped-out insides when you’re done.  It’s been a standby of mine for Thanksgiving for years.  Enjoy!

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Happy is the new Perfect

Bought the BPA-free bottles: Check.  Read Kiwi Magazine cover-to-cover: Good girl.  Did floor time for an hour and practiced baby signs: Ooh, bonus points.  Got an unexpected work call and had to turn on Baby Einstein for 8 1/2 minutes:  Bad mom! Bad, bad mom!

Why do moms think in such binary terms?  Why is it all-or-nothing— either we’ve earned the gold star, or we hang our heads in shame?  It’s no wonder many of us walk around feeling like failures 24/7… we leave ourselves no room for error, and our stay in “perfect” territory is always fleeting.  We’re so concerned with hanging on to our “Good Mom” title, that we often lose sight of the practical results of our actions: Are my kids happy and well cared for? Am I? This week, think about where you can relax the standards in your life and how you can be a little less “perfect” and a little more “happy.”  And, as always, I’d love to hear your story.

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