If you want things to happen, you should probably be friends with me Ralphie. She suggested last spring the idea of having a little co-op school for her youngest daughter, Ella, and another child or two. And then, like magic, a schedule, a general agenda, and another willing mother/child combo were ready to go in September. Three two-year-old girls is…
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Make Me Happy
The weather has been glorious over the last few days, and yet I am in the crabbiest of moods, which I’m finding very hard to shake. I know that a lot of it is due to sleep – Ella has been taking progressively worse naps for the last week and also getting up increasingly earlier each morning, while I try…
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Board Books for the (Future) English Major
You know when you see something and think, “That was a great idea, but executed very poorly.”? These BabyLit books are not one of those things. This was a great idea, masterfully pulled off. I’d seen one or two of these board books around, but when my mom and I were at Powell’s in Portland, I finally got a chance…
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Potstickers, or, How to Use Up Green Things
Pork potstickers seem like a terrible idea when you are assembling them (even a good audiobook is hard-pressed to help me forget how boring I find the task, although, really, it only takes about 12 minutes to make 50), but the best idea ever when you need a quick lunch or dinner and you suddenly remember you are eight minutes…
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A Toy for a Long Rainy Weekend
Bart was out of town all the last week of September, first for work and then through the weekend for his brother’s wedding. By the time Friday afternoon rolled around, I was pretty happy about the giant box with the Leapfrog Animal Adventure Table I had stashed away in the laundry closet after it arrived a couple of days earlier….
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