Sunday is Mother's Day! It is a great time to do something special to celebrate the mom in your life. At a meeting yesterday, someone shared with me that they were going to make their wife a delicious breakfast with grilled asparagus, which got me thinking about how to celebrate mom with a fresh, delicious breakfast from the Farmer's Market. I've been going w...
That's right although the dreary rain makes summer seem so far away, it's almost summertime! Â Before you know it, the time will have arrived for summer camp! We're here to help you get started on planning summer activities with a few tips for you on the perfect local camps for your child: Stanford is just up the street from Redwood Gate in Palo Alto. Â&nbs...
I don't know about you all, but I feel like this year is just going so fast! Can you believe the first day of Spring is tomorrow?!? Weren't we just recovering from baking cookies at Christmas, paying Valentines Day bills, starting a new school semester and eating corned beef (oh wait- we were just eating corned beef! Corned beef sandwich leftovers are the best!...
Following up on Allison’s great blog on sweet getaways and restaurants for Valentine’s Day, here are some unbelievable deals for you and your Valentine. Flowers... the veritable Santa Clause of Valentine's Day. So it's a good thing FTD is having a super sale! If you haven’t seen the tv ads they are pushing this big and for a good reason....
This Valentine's Day is extra special as it is also the Chinese New Year. Â So bring in good fortune and celebrate with someone you love. Â Valentine's Day doesn't need to be super expensive to make it special or romantic. Â Sometimes it is as simple as a day at the spa, or an evening out on the town, even getting away overnight can feel rejuvenatin...
Or at least have an excuse to unglue your eyeballs from NFL.com and media day to enjoy some home town sports news.  And so it is with eager anticipation of this year’s 44th Annual Super Bowl that we look at the success of our local community high school sports teams as 2010 kicks off at great year. Redwood Gate in Palo Alto funnels to Gunn High School w...
We work in the Real Estate market and the headlines make even my head spin. Many of the stories can be spun in different directions and the trend seems to pull out the negative facts for a catchy title that gets clicks. The facts are often buried in the story. (more…)......
As we decided to relocate to the Bay Area and were looking for a house, we had a few houses in Los Altos in our mind. However, considering both of us are working full-time with two kids under three years old, we were wondering if we’ll be able maintain a 30 to 50 year-old house. [caption id="attachment_774" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Our ne...
When a market is undergoing change, there is a time where the changes starts happening before we fully recognize that they are happening. The past 6 months have been full of change. We are the first to say we are astonished by the activity levels that we've seen and continue to see with our "Mrs. Hill" live chat service seeing significant increase in activity since ...
During a planning meeting yesterday morning, our ceiling started to shake as if the financial corporation upstairs were having an astro jump party without us. My co-worker asked, “Hey, what IS that? Is it an... an earthquake?†to which someone quickly responded, “You think ONLY the roof would shake if it were an earthquake- oh come onâ€. Little ...