Have a wonderful weekend.

  What are you up to this weekend? We're meeting friends at this famous pizza place and might take the little dudes to see the cherr...

A hair trick

Every morning when Caroline comes in to work, our conversation goes something like this : Me: "Did you get your hair cut?" ...

Honest giveaway

  Today's giveaway is a big one! The Honest Company is one of my long-term sponsors, and I adore their products and mission. Our fam...

Mindy Kaling interviews Billy Crystal

  My sister Lucy and I sometimes jokingly chat about which movie characters we'd want to marry. I always end up vacillating between ...

Movie Subway parody

    Our babysitter showed me this video this morning, and we were both laughing out loud. "MTA: We're going to ruin your su...

How to get smooth legs for the summer

  When I was fourteen years old, my roommates at ballet camp taught me how to shave. I sprinkled water on my legs from our dorm-room sin...

Wedding do or don’t Restaurant registry

  Alex and I went out to dinner the other night, and we ended up chatting with a couple who had created a restaurant registry, instead ...

Lipstick Challenge week one

  Top row: BITE Moscato, Revlon Orange Flip   Bottom row: Laura Mercier Healthy Lips, Bare Minerals Lead the Way, MAC Ruby Woo My n...

Have a wonderful weekend.

  What are your plans this weekend? I'm flying to San Francisco today to meet my sister and mom for the weekend. I'll be away fr...

Travel-themed week

This week, let's do a travel-themed week. Now that summer is right around the corner, aren't you itching for a lazy vacation the...

Where do you go on family vacations

  I recently read a quote pointing out that you have only 18 summer vacations with your children so you have to make them count! As the...

Good news

  The British store ASOS is giving Cup of Jo readers 20% off all full-priced items with the code JOANNA2014, good until Sunday. They hav...

Are you scared of flying

  One of every six adults has aviophobia, the fear of flying. Do you? I'm not scared of flying, but since I'm freaked out by ot...

Dinners Venturing into new territory

  Do you ever get in a food rut? Over the past few years, ninety percent of the time we made pasta, and the other ten percent of the tim...

Let's talk about travel...

  Crazy fact: The Empire State Building gets struck by lightning up to 100 times a year.   An interactive guide to what Italian...

Have you read Summer reading

At the airport this weekend, I picked up a copy of The Fault in Our Stars, the story of a sixteen-year-old cancer patient named Hazel, w...

Would you rather

  Whenever Alex and I are on a trip on a plane, on a train, out to dinner, at the beach we end up playing "Would You Rather?" ...

Would you travel alone

  My mom and I once took a trip to Paris and, halfway through our trip, discovered that we had accidentally booked our return flights fo...

Lipstick Challenge week two

  Top row: Revlon Choco-Licious, NARS lipstick in Manhunt   Bottom row: Maybelline Coral Crush, Clinique Mighty Mimosa , Lipstick Quee...

Have a wonderful weekend.

  What are you up to this weekend? We're having an early birthday picnic for Toby tomorrow (here are his past three and his birth s...