We like the idea of Your Little Film, a Los Angeles-based company started by a father-filmmaker on a mission to help overwhelmed parents to do something cool with all those family videos.

We found something cool to do with at least a few hundred of your digital photos: commission Mosaic Pix to create a portrait of your kid.

Unfortunately for many of us, the preschool application process includes some time spent in waitlist purgatory. It’s a bummer, yes, but it’s not the end of the world according to Betsy Brown Braun, local preschool guru and author of Just Tell Me What to Say and You’re Not the Boss of Me! Here, she shares her thoughts on how to deal.

It shouldn’t be so freaking difficult to a find Father’s Day card that doesn’t feature a beer can, football game, or remote control on the cover—not to mention, “For my Husband” in cheesy, scripty font. Ugh. We scoured the city in search of something a bit more stylish . . . here’s what we found.