So, after totally clearing out my closet last week (and, after the fact, I purged another five or six things and an entire garbage bag of baby stuff. Hide your belongings), I’m ready to start thinking about what I’m missing. (This is WAY more fun, although slightly less therapeutic). Since we’ll be living out of a suitcase this summer, I’m…
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A Brief List of Early Chapter Books
Ella discovered early chapter books this year (you know, the ones with four or five little chapters) and we have read dozens of them over the last many months. For some reason, she’s especially taken with the Berenstain Bear books, but I do try to encourage a little branching out (mainly because I can only read so many Berenstain Bear…
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The Last of Spring Break
(I know it. . . other people’s vacation pictures. Pretty thrilling around these parts today). Yesterday was the last day of Bart’s two-week spring break. Today, it’s back to normal life. After starting off Spring Break with a week-long cruise to the Bahamas, we laid low at home for most of last week, but we finished off with a bang…
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The False Story of How We Met
This photo, from the set of family photos we had taken in May 2012, has hung in Ella’s room since we moved the summer. The other night, as Ella was getting ready for bed, Bart said, “Ella, look how TINY you were there. Can you even believe it?” Ella looked closely at the photo and then asked, “Was this when…
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Slow Cooker Vanilla Bean Pear Butter
Pears have been on sale at my grocery store since about January. They are also always as hard as rocks. Surprisingly, my girls aren’t all that interested in eating rock-hard pears (who are these children?). And yet, possibly because I’m an idiot, I keep buying them. When I looked in my fridge drawers on Tuesday, I had ten pears in…
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