Kids freaking out? Try this simple breath work exercise designed especially for children.

Fact: Kids hate spinach. Also fact: It’s super easy to hide in a delicious smoothie, like this one!

My version of burning hell would be someone forcing me to endure a stint of the Atkins diet. I’ve learned in my adult years that I can cut down on carbs, but I can’t cut them out. Just not gonna happen, even though, yes, I know it would help me with this whole baby weight thing.

I had a post all planned and ready to go up today, and then my friend Nicole dropped off the most amazing biscotti on my front porch (because Italians do awesome things like drop off delicious homemade food to your doorstep, unsolicited), and it threw the most delicious and crunchy wrench into my plans to post about something else–something that’s not nearly as awesome as homemade desserts.

Look. I’m 100% Italian, and let me start off by saying my two  grandmothers are likely simultaneously rolling over in their graves as I post this.