Posts written by Kristin Brandt

As you may remember, I recently began triathlon training, which really meant I  started buying accessories for my new athletic endeavors. After a few walks/runs in anything I could find around the house, I [...]

Whenever my husband is making me particularly crazy with one of those “things” that drives me insane, I think back to something Jenna McCarthy, author of If It Was Easy, They’d Call the Whole [...]

Last week I received amazing responses from readers when I posted to Manic Mommies that I had decided to try completing my first triathlon, and was thinking of signing up for a second. With [...]

Do you hear that? It’s the growing excitement of my children and countless others in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts preparing for next week’s April holiday. Or maybe it’s the groans of their parents who [...]

Even as I write the headline for this blog post, I feel a bit of trepidation about opening what could be a controversial can of worms. But I ask the question not in an [...]

Recently, because I had so much “spare” time on my hands (forgive me while I take a moment to recover from the giggling fit) I decided to take up a new hobby – photography. [...]

I don’t know what’s more interesting about the sudden popularity of the Shades of Grey trilogy – that the self-published e-book series is taking the world by storm, or that everyone seems surprised women [...]

Back in October, I wrote about an expensive lesson that my son and husband learned through Wizard101, a massively multiplayer online role-playing fantasy game. (Think Dungeons and Dragons without the multisided dice or workbooks). [...]

Our 6-year old daughter has been begging me to redecorate her room. After a year of asking me if I could change her wall color from bright green to pink, a request I continue [...]

This weekend my husband and I brought our children to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston. While I was excited about the opportunity to check out the museum, my husband was less [...]