from Cookie Magazine. March-April 2007

Large take-out coffee cup in hand, Lisa Mahar surveys her New York City store, Kid O. Up since the crack of dawn, she has already played with her 12-month old twins, Miles and Eli, and walked her 4-year old, Emmett, to preschool. Then she blasted into the store to keep an eye on what customers are gravitating to. "This place is my lab," she says....