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I took a deep breath. "Oh dear, Crabtot!" I said cheerfully. "Ella Yellow just got eaten by the praying mantis. You have to go back to start! Never mind. You'll soon catch up."

We were playing the Ladybug Game. Anyone else have this board game? The players are ladybugs trying to get back to their rosebush home after being blown off course. First they have to make it past the praying mantis in Hydrangea Maze (if you get the "bug off!" card you don't get eaten). Then they have to collect aphids along the way to feed to evil ants that block their path in Ant Alley.

It's a good game. If your kid wins, that is. But lately I've decided Crabtot shouldn't always win. She's almost four. Soon enough she'll be a big girl at big school. And in the game of life, you don't always make it to the rosebush unscathed. In life, there are praying mantises along the way. And ants who want your aphids. If you follow my meaning.

Crabtot was not thrilled with me yesterday when I stopped

I am kind of crushing on Jimmy Kimmel after reading Sarah Silverman's quip that he loves her thigh fat, even though she doesn't. It reminds me of a bonding moment I had with my male best friend, who has repeatedly declared that he finds my upper arms to be absolutely beautiful. For years, I thought he was poking fun at my admitted insecurity regarding my grandma arms, because I couldn't understand how he could possibly find my bingo wings "charming." However, I now believe that he's telling the truth.

And while I doubt I'll be wearing a sleeveless dress out to the clubs anytime soon, he has allowed me to be a little more kind to myself and I am buoyed by the idea that should my arms accidentally be exposed, it's not like they will be pelted by villagers wielding torches.

What was the turning point in my head? Several years ago, during one of those "I love you man!" moments, he assured me that he honestly and most assuredly is earnest in his adoration for something that makes me so

Order a bar of the creamy, powdery-sweet Believe Honey Bar from Noodle & Boo, and the proceeds directly help clean the water of the village of Heeraraa in Ethiopia.

--Dawn Spinner, associate beauty editor

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Scientists are investigating the effects of the flavonoids in chocolate on heart disease and are looking for 150 women to eat chocolate for a year. Seriously! For the good of humanity! Well, we knew that it was good for you, but the potential to actually fight disease with a Hershey's bar? Mind-boggling!

Given our discussion about intuitive eating and disorders yesterday, I wonder if knowing that you were going to be eating chocolate every day would somehow demystify or take away some of the illicit sense of cheating is programmed into our brains. In one anecdote in Geneen Roth's When Food Is Love, a mother is worried about her child's obsessive relationship with food and weight issues. The mom worries that the little girl would, if left to her own devices, eat nothing but M&M's. As part of an attempt to break the "naughty" connotations built over years of dieting, the mother was told to buy several pounds of M&M's and pour them into a pillowcase and let the girl carry it around with

Shout out to the big soled sistas in the hizzy! I never imagined that there were so many of us, scouring the racks of depressing boring footwear, envying the heck out of our friends with the size 6 tootsies. And of course, after I listed several designers from whom I've never seen a size 12 offering, I immediately found that I was wrong, oh so wrong, and many of them do make up to size 12 but, like a four-leaf clover, you just have a little tougher time finding them. So let's go shoe shopping, shall we? Here are ten adorable shoes just in time for wedding season that are available up to size 12 (and oh, size 7's? Some of these come in your size too.)

• Leave it to my purse girlfriend Kate Spade to finally listen to my silent weeping: I spotted this cute peep toe flat at Nordie's, which is proof that Ms. Spade's shoe line really does hit double digits.

• Jimmy Choo? Yes we do! In both flats and also gorgeous stilettos, both on sale.

• I've never heard of Samanta and I would have to

Okay, we realize this makes us sound like giant nerds, but we tend to get excited about advancements in the dry erase world. (Like this fridge we found earlier.) And we love these colored Chatboards from SUITE New York. Available in pretty much any color you could imagine, the boards are also magnetic. As all the to-do and reminder lists grow by the day, it's nice to have something this pretty to keep things organized.


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There was a Bikram Yoga studio on my way home from the train, when I lived in San Francisco. I would pass it every night, and swear I wouldn't peer through the windows because it is rude, to spy on people when they are vulnerable, in their workout clothes and sweaty and going ow ow ow, or wondering how their ass looks. Because that's something that's hard not to do, when you're in an exercise class. Or so I've heard.

I'd peer through the glass every single night. Sometimes, just a glance, and I'd see uplifted arms and gleaming skin and looks of concentration and determination and once, outright agony. Sometimes, I'd stop, and I'd get very close to the window and watch, because I was fascinated. I had never done yoga (never had, actually, until I moved to Utah, and if that's not counter-intuitive, I don't know what is), but I thought I might want to, or could do it, that it would be good for my body and my beautiful spirit and my crazy head, right? That's how yoga goes. It fixes you

For all of the glasses of Sauvignon Blanc you drink once the kids are down for the night, it is good to know someone out there is putting all of their used corks to good use. Lightly's new Eco-Ware line is full of earth-friendly placemats and coasters, made entirely of recycled rubber and wine cork. They are biodegradable, heat resistant, and perfect for protecting the coffee table from your chilled glass of vino.

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