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It’s cold and rainy today, the first day in what I hope is the last stretch of cold, rainy weather before the warm spring weather really sticks around. We’ve had flashes, and the clover is out so at least our yard is green, but we’re definitely in that transition period. It’s a time when it’s kind of hard to believe ... Read More »

Last spring my girl was home sick for a day, and I decided it would be fun to keep track of all the things we did that day just to document how high energy even a sick toddler could be. It gave me fodder for weeks of blog posts, and was a big part of the list I compiled as ... Read More »

The prompt for this week’s Iron Craft was green, meaning either the color green or somehow recycling/reusing something. I knew just what I wanted to do. I have a big piece of green felt leftover from the Bit’s felt Christmas tree that I wanted to make into a felt board. It happened that the felt was just about the perfect ... Read More »

I have a million things I want to write about right now, but the weight of having just a handful of days between me and spring break (and only a few more between me and Blissdom, and way too many details that need to be ironed out, like how I’m actually going to get there…) means that I need to ... Read More »

Husband is out of town this week, so I’ve been trying to have something special set up for the Bit after school each day to get out of our routine a little bit and make it special instead of sad. The Seuss stuff was one of these. And the next day I tried a playdough invitation on the theme of ... Read More »

We read a lot of books in this house, but Dr. Seuss has always been a favorite. The Bit read her board book copy of The Foot Book so much the cover fell off (there might have been some ripping involved, but still, it was well-loved). There’s a Wocket in My Pocket was one of her bedtime books for a ... Read More »

The other day — the day before Valentine’s Day, to be precise — the Bit got out her air-dry clay before school. She was making a cake, and she asked me to help. I piled on a few layers for her, and as she worked I made some bigger pieces of clay and decided to cut out hearts with a ... Read More »

The Bit, like most kids, loves to dress up and play pretend. And she really loves pretending that she’s a doctor and someone — a parent, a doll from the dollhouse, a stuffed animal — is sick. She will use anything at hand to be her medical equipment. For a long time her “medicine” was a travel-sized bottle of shampoo. ... Read More »

It seems like everyone has been posting their best ofs in the past few days, and I thought it would be fun to take a look back at some of my most popular posts, too. None of the favorites surprised me, because they’ve been consistently popular and are the sorts of articles you’d expect to be popular on a site ... Read More »

Thanks to the fact that the Bit is home and has been sick and I’m only working during naps on non-holiday days, things have gotten pretty quiet around here. Which is how it should be this time of year, I imagine. I’m busy doing a lot of reflecting and thinking about the year to come, and I hope you are, ... Read More »

This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to Deb Moretti! Please read on for my review of the Melissa & Doug Whittle World bus set! A few weeks ago I told you about the Melissa & Doug Terrific Twenty Holiday Gift List and mentioned that I would be doing a giveaway of one of the products on the list. (As an ... Read More »

Today’s challenge was to write about a fall tradition. We don’t really have any fall traditions yet in our little family of three. The Bit should have been about two weeks old for her first Halloween; instead she was a wee preemie who wasn’t getting anywhere near trick-or-treating. Her second Halloween was celebrated at the Botanical Garden; her third we ... Read More »