Mornings are tough for moms. Do you have any tips or advice on how to look put together with no time to spare?
Since mornings are so crazed, I limit my choices and stick to a very basic uniform: J brand skinny jeans, alexander wang tee, sue london flats, and my sue gragg coin necklace. It's easy and low-key. If I've got meetings right after carpool, I ALWAYS have my outfit pulled the night before and walk out the door with heels in my purse and flip flops on my feet. I can't manage 2 kids in 5-inch Marnis
Do you have efficient and tantrum free travel ideas? Special gadgets, toys or treats?
My 5 and 2-year-olds have their own separate DVD players that they carry in their own backpacks, so I don't have to deal with an "I-don't-want-to-watch-what-he/she's-watching" tantrum. I also have an arsenal of snacks...everything from lollipops and gum to ease takeoff/landing ear pressure to grapes, crackers, peanut butter. My 5-year-old always travels with his Nintendo DS and we both play it!
How do you pamper yourself after a long week?
A 2-hour mani/pedi with a stack of fresh magazines and a glass of champagne.
What do you think is important to teach your children?
Kindness. Boastfulness and pretension is not tolerated in our house. Treat EVERYONE as you would want to be treated.
What is the most important lesson you learned from your own mother?
You've got to stand up for yourself because no one else will.
What can you not live without, no matter what it cost, you will sell your left arm for it if you have to?
A few things: Weekly blowouts from Matthew Taylor at Orange, Marni
heels from Barneys, champagne in the sub zero, my prescription of
Latisse - for my eyelashes - and Tazorac - for flawless skin.
It is 6pm and you have nothing planned for dinner. What is your emergency recipe you can whip up in 30 minutes or less?
Anything by the Barefoot Contessa. Her books and recipes have saved me a hundred times.
Confession Time. What have you done to cut corners, save time, save sanity, just had no time or because you were simply lazy?
This list is endless: Instead of bathing my kids I've sometimes simply
wiped them down with a wet wash cloth, I'll "forget" to make them brush
their teeth, or we'll have breakfast for dinner and they eat waffles
out of the toaster or cereal. It's terrible, but it keeps me sane when
the wheels are about to come off.
Photo: Allison V. Smith
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