With San Francisco just a little over an hour away, our visits to the city tend to be daytrips. So it’s a special treat to settle in for a night or—even better—two. The impetus: a two-night-hotel-stay auctioned off at Hudson’s school, and Aron’s was the winning bid!
I keep a running list of ideas for things to do with kids in San Francisco (I’ll include it below), but we tend to repeat a lot of our favorites. This time, we decided to make it what we like to call a full Larry Gets Lost–weekend (after the kids’ favorite San Francisco-themed book—a great inspiration source), and include everything from Pier 39 and cable cars to a ferry trip to Alcatraz. It turned out to be a beautiful two days!
I remember a few years ago asking Aron why electric toothbrushes couldn’t be made to be more attractive. Ours was always sitting out in a clunky base charger, cord in the way. It wasn’t long after that quip arrived on the scene, almost as if they’d been listening. So yes, it was the look that first drew me in: a slim design, attractive brush-metal color options, and a travel-ready holder that can affix to the mirror or bathroom tile. But I was further intrigued when I learned its sonic vibrations would be quieter.
Still, change doesn’t always come quickly, and I hadn’t given it a chance until now, when I learned that quip was launching kids’ electric toothbrushes. I knew the kids would be excited about matching toothbrushes, and I’m excited about helping them love to brush.
Because oral health is so closely tied to overall health, we have been making brushing a part of the kids’ routine since those first baby teeth arrived. Aron would tell them about the sugar bugs and how we’d sweep them away! Even now, they still talk about brushing in terms of keeping those critters at bay. So, today, in partnership with quip, here are some of the ways we’ve been helping our family make brushing more fun, and how some of the features of the quip electric toothbrush can help…
At the start of the year, when I reached out about fresh ideas for the site, I got a very nice email from Mina Manchester about the value she found in posts that engender a sense of community: when one relates to a post and feels less alone because someone else is thinking (or wondering or worrying) about similar things.
So this week, we are launching a new series of interviews with women to relate to and be inspired by. The women we’ll be talking with women who are makers and creative professionals, as well as women accomplished across many fields. We’ll bring you stories from the trenches—of parents juggling kids and work, of freelancers trying to make their creative endeavors financially stable, and of women working multiple side hustles in order to follow their passion. And at the end of their day we’re asking them, ‘What Keeps You Up At Night?’
First up is Elizabeth Laime, a comedienne, podcaster, TV writer, and mom to Teddy (4.5) and Otis (3). Elizabeth created the podcast Totally Laime—“asking important people the least important questions,” with her husband and collaborator Andy Rosen. They added the spinoffs Totally Married and Totally Mommy and, now, Elizabeth has written for the second season of the comedy, I’m Sorry, which has been picked up by Netflix! She also wrote for The Village, which premieres March 12 on NBC. We talked with Elizabeth about how she makes it all happen.
