Last week, we shared our list of closet staples. This week, we’re showing what our own personal closet staples are. As you can tell by looking at my picture – my staples are pretty neutral (pink pants aside). I knew I’d picked true staples when I had to pull 80% of them out of the clean laundry pile to photograph…
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10 Books Ella Currently Loves: Winter Edition
Ella is slowly starting to give up her nap and so we’ve been transitioning to quiet time. Usually, she sleeps for about an hour and a half or so and then when she wakes up, I give her an enormous pile of books to read in her crib until her two hours is up. Sometimes, she gets through all her…
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I’m Stuck On:
A few things I’ve loved lately: Merrick mentioned these glittery flats in her Sisters Share It All post this week and I’m convinced I need a pair now, especially since my own beloved gold shoes now have holes in the soles (when I sit on the floor at storytime, I look like a homeless person). I love cinnamon rolls…
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The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It by Kelly McGonigal
The irony of how long I procrastinated picking up The Willpower Instinct was not lost on me. But once I started it, I was immediately sucked in. This was a fantastic book (one of those ones I haven’t been able to stop reading aloud to Bart), and it was especially fun to read right as I was making and beginning…
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Getting to Know You
Last night, my bookclub met (I know what you’re thinking: “Wouldn’t it be nice if Janssen could go more than two minutes without mentioning her bookclub?”). We just added two new members to replace two that had to drop out, and so we were briefly reviewing the guidelines (“they’re more like guidelines, really. . . “). Someone mentioned the surveys…
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