I am a huge dork. And a huge home-body. Maybe that's why I love Menlo Park so much :) Luckily I when I met my husband he was living here too- I looked at him like "where have you been hiding that I don't know you already?" Having my offices and Heff's office in the same building downtown gives me a good home-base (or commune) to park myself and my strollers.

My friends own businesses downtown too which gives me some good destinations and we frequent most restaurants on "The Cruz." I feel really lucky to have work to keep my busy with new stuff but with great managers for the day-to-day I still get to feel like a stay-at-home-mom... and get to play downtown Menlo Park most days. Today I actually worked on an ad promoting a "shop local" target, you'll see if you keep reading my ramblings...

My favorite baby store downtown of course is "Le Cirque des Enfants" my friend Christian owns... it has the best baby stuff- like the new BlaBla dolls (like the Shigo girls gave us!) that they just got in with dress up clothes!! They are all ready for Christmas...

Maisie just chillin in her favorite fancy chair at Le Cirque

Francie trying things on

Maisie getting some love from Christian

and making funny faces

and there is hardly a day downtown without a stop at "The Sugar Shack!" (Sweet-tooth-Francie's-FAV and my most used bribery trick)

our friend Suzi! (who was there when Heff and I met- we hope we have her Karma, she has SEVEN kids and a candy store!)

And today I actually DID WORK for most of the afternoon and evening. Thanks Heff and Jannie for helping with the monsters....

I worked on Facebook "Ad campaigns"... it's such a cool way to promote your business! Thanks for becoming out fan if you have already and if not click here to FAN us!!

The Beehive 94025 on Facebook

Academic Trainers on Facebook

Brilliant Babies on Facebook

Then Christian and I decided at 3pm to "throw together" an ad for the inside back cover of the Junior League Holiday Homes Tour brochure... we got our friend Katie (who owns the boutique Pink Tangerine) on board to promote all three and "Shop Local!" The almost finished product...

You'd THINK creating a business where you could LEAVE your kids for a few hours while you ran errands would be great for when you actually have kids and need to leave them... but of course Francie flat out refuses to stay and play by herself. I don;t know what I am doing wrong. Thank goodness for Heff and Jannie!