I am blessed with a child who sleeps very well through the night. Once he goes to bed, barring a need to use the restroom, he’s there for the night. No jack-in-the-box bedtimes here. A rarity with a young child, so I hear. Though, at times, I’d like to think perhaps we “earned this”, as he didn’t sleep through the night well until nearly turning one, and the routine leading up to a successful bedtime has always been rather long. When he was just a baby, it was diaper change, pajamas, brushing teeth, two books, followed by a final feeding, and then rocking and snuggling to Jack Johnson’s “Good People” twice, then waiting for the drowsy eyes and slowly, ever so gently, laying him in his crib. As we shifted away from diapers and final night feedings, the routine morphed into bath, pajamas, brush teeth, a story or two, and [...]
Target & Neiman Marcus team up for holiday gift collection
I love Target. I go all too often. Enough that I’ve joked I may as well send 1/3 of my check directly there (and in turn, I’d like to be able to just pick what I want whenever I go — seems fair, yes?). I’ve never been to a Neiman Marcus store, nor a city that housed a Neiman Marcus to my awareness, but I know their products are of a certain level of luxury I simply don’t seek out. (Hint: I probably can’t afford a key chain there.) But, this holiday season, the two stores have joined forces in order to introduce a line of designer created gift items (53 items in total that I can see) and as of today, the collection is viewable online (though not yet available for purchase). It seems as though the idea for this collaboration is to make designer items within reach for [...]