About the Bloggers
Nice to meetcha!
We are Heather Flett and Whitney Moss and we’ll be your hostesses on this blog. We partner with UL to help provide valuable safety information for your family. We both live in Berkeley, CA and we both have two children. Since becoming moms, we struggle to balance keeping everyone safe with having fun. This blog will explore some of the many aspects of safety as we face it in our everyday lives. We hope you’ll join us and help make this blog a dialogue that we can all learn from.
We write another blog together at RookieMoms.com and just published our first book, The Rookie Mom’s Handbook.
We love hot chocolate, comfortable shoes, and the television show Lost, but that’s where the similarities end. Now we need to stop using “we” and introduce ourselves separately.
About Heather (as told by Whitney)
Heather has curly red hair and a personality to match. She is strong willed and loves to have a challenging goal in front of her. After 28 years of leading an un-athletic life, she set out to do the Chicago Marathon and finished it. She devotes herself projects, lists, and rituals. The number of fun things we’ve done together is probably recorded in her diary somewhere. When Heather became a mother, she requested that I make a list of all the activities I liked to do with my baby (six months older than hers) so that she could check them off of her list.
Now Heather and her husband Alec have two sons, Holden (3 ½) and Milo (1 ½). As a family, they are conscientious about their impact on the environment and use their car minimally, cook lots of locally-grown produce, and avoid buying things they don’t need. She is originally from the Cleveland area of Ohio and went to Northwestern University.
Career-wise, Heather is a seasoned interactive project manager with 13 years of experience that she doesn’t look nearly old enough to have.
About Whitney (as told by Heather)
Whitney is short in stature but huge in creativity. I like to lift her up and carry her around. We met 12 years ago when we were fresh out of college and she was wearing a colorful handknit hat. Since then, we’ve shared many (finished and unfinished) craft projects. Whitney’s great because she knows where her sewing machine is and she remembers how to use it.
Whitney and Ryan have two children, Julian (4) and Scarlett (1 ½). Julian is mellow and Scarlett is proving to be more feisty. Whether from well-timed online shopping, embellishing hand-me-downs with well-placed buttons, or purely handmade creations, the whole family is very well-dressed. Whitney grew up in LA and attended Barnard College in New York City before moving to Berkeley.
Whitney has had several interesting jobs (from teaching children’s gymnastics to risky web startups) but worked most steadily for LeapFrog Toys as a marketing manager so she’s a professional expert in fun stuff.
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