Monday’s Maven
Monday’s Maven
Full Name: Liz Stanley
blog: Say Yes to Hoboken
Kids: Baby Hank, 20 months
Location: San Francisco, CA
What makes you smile? A hard hike to a secret beautiful spot.
What is one of your dreams you hope to accomplish soon? I just moved to San Francisco, so one of my goals is to really get to know this new-to-me city.
What gives you anxiety as a mother? Feeling inadequate and unprepared.
How do you deal with it? Learning. Try to learn as much as I can from more experienced moms, friends, family.
What is your guilty pleasure? Trashy TV like The Hills and Gossip Girl.
What do you love most about you? The combination of traits I inherited from my parents: the focus/precision from my father and the fun loving-ness from my mother.
Favorite place? My favorite hobby is thrift store shopping. It was something I grew up
doing with my thrifty mother and sisters. That’s why finding items for my baby hank vintage Etsy shop is so much fun!
Who is your hero? I don’t know if I could name one, but my deceased grandmother comes to mind. Her strength and warmth still inspire me on a regular basis.
Your advice to other moms: For newer moms, take lots of videos. I don’t even remember what my son was like at 3 or 6 months and I wish I had more video of our interactions and his every little smirk. Time flies by.
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I found out the hard way about not taking videos…I recently found a few that I took of Van when she was 18 months or so! I was soo sad that I didn’t do more, because I don’t remember her at all at that stage. Good advice girl!!
Love San Fran…when you get settled, I might have to join you. Seriously one of my favorite places to be!
I love that photo of you Liz jumping on the beach. How fun that you are now in San Fransisco. It is too one of my goals to live there. We will have to talk sometime about all of your finds so when I make it I will know all the hidden places.
I feel the same about babies growing up! I can’t remember all the details of the newborn stage, the crawling stage, what it was like when she first started walking.
I too love the photo of you jumping for joy (or with joy!) on the beach. We all need more moments like that! And I agree, learn all you can from as many people as you can! Great feature, Vanessa!
Love you, Liz! We met at a StartUp Princess event earlier this year where you introduced me to the wonderful world that is Kirtsy!
I’d love to know your favorite Frisco spot thus far - we’ll be out there in the Spring and can’t wait to explore such a vibrant city.
well, so far you NEED to go to tartine bakery. i can’t even think past that. it’s amazing. get the morning buns for sure and anything else. everything is superb
Great advice!!!
I haven’t been thrift store shopping for so long but nothing beats wearing something you bought there and having someone compliment it!!
Thanks for the “take lots of videos” tip! I totally need to remember that.
Liz, I love that photo of you on the beach. What fun!!