Happy Monday! Did you know there are a lot of maternity items in the big Nordstrom Fall Clearance Sale? A lot of it is very springy stuff (lots of pastels), but I think this dress could be worn year-round, layered in winter with a navy cardigan and navy tights. The dress is Maternal America, one of…
Several weeks ago, we were on a plane and had a toddler poop emergency — and I had packed the extra wipes somewhere “clever,” which is Casa Griffin code for “no idea where.” YEP, super smart. I found myself wishing desperately I had this odd little compressed/condensed towel that I’d found years ago at one…
If you had asked me six years ago whether I wanted a backpack, my answer would have been a hard and fast NO THANK YOU. Motherhood (helped by the fact that backpacks are trendy right now) has changed that — I wore a lightweight nylon one during both of my pregnancies when I had SPD…
I have not noticed this dress before, but Talbots has it in a zillion different colors and prints at the moment: meet the Bella side-drape dress. It’s machine washable (line dry), comes in regular, petite, plus, and plus size petites, and ranges in price from $62-$149. The pictured dress, in “forest fern,” (pictured in the…
Ladies, let’s talk potty training! What’s your best potty training advice — particularly if you’ve already been through it with a child? For my own $.02, I will admit it: I royally screwed up potty training with my eldest son, J. Things we did wrong, in no particular order: How We Royally Screwed Up Potty…
