When I had my first baby, 4 years ago, I thought I could continue my art career within 6 months. As a work-at-home mom I envisioned nap time to be predictable enough, and my stamina to be strong enough to stay up at night creating. When I had my second baby 2 years later I [...]

The photo is misleading, that’s Indian idly, which is supposed to be eaten with your hands. But you get the point. So “That’s poor etiquette” is a helpful phrase for us. It seems to sum up many reasons to do things. Or not do them. Example 1, Nose picking: Instead of telling our kids “Ew, that’s [...]

Christopher Robin: Pooh, what’s your favorite thing in the whole world? Winnie the Pooh: My favorite thing is me coming to visit you, and then you ask, “How about a small smackeral of honey?” Christopher Robin: I like that, too. But what I like most of all is just doing nothing. Winnie the Pooh: How [...]

We never set out to have fish, but it happened anyway. We learned enough on our path to a healthy tank that I thought would be good to share. I also know fishtanks are popular in Montessori classrooms or for Homeschoolers, so here we go… It will take up to 6 weeks to “cycle” the [...]

The other day I found my copy of Becoming the Parent You Want to Be after it was lost somewhere in the house for a few months. I opened it up while I was hanging out with the kids and chapter 3 stood out to me. I read it months ago but this time it [...]

Coming up with the title for this was entertaining. I decided to play it safe. Lou was playing chase and scraped her knee pretty bad. I told her we would go get Super Boy and a band-aid. As usual she was unhappy with it being a boy and asked for a Super Girl instead, but [...]

Sometimes we get a little action figure doll and it’s eyes are not painted correctly. Sometimes they have a wandering eye, sometimes crazy eyes. When we got Belle, she had crazy eyes. I did not take a picture of the eyes at the time, so I shall illustrate how her eyes looked compared to how [...]

We call it the Garden Room. It’s Lou’s bedroom and soon to be Ero’s too. We have two beds in there on the floor. We have an outrageous amount of pillows in there, and a crib mattress that was never used in a crib. We spend a lot of time in this room each day. Building towers, [...]

Ok here we go… first the disclaimer. I did not plan to co-sleep, or plan on having an all night nurser, and it happened twice. I’m guessing it had more to do with me than the types of babies we had. That said, we had Ero in a separate bed early on, but he still wanted to [...]

I thought I would take pictures all day to get used to my new lens. Forgive the photos for being blurry and odd, I am still learning how to use this glorious lens. Most of our mornings are child-led. The kids are usually in a great mood, probably their best mood all day. We had [...]