Late-pregnancy insomnia sucks. There's basically no other time in one's life when the need to sleep and the inability to sleep are in such direct conflict. The toddler doesn't help; the past week or so, either he or the dog has woken me up at about 4:30 am. After I deal with whatever they need, I go back to bed and try to go back to sleep, but I'm ( Read more... )

I want to do a Winnie the Pooh birthday party for Silas. He adores the folk in the 100 Acre Wood (though he has yet to make it through one of the actual stories--he reads this about 30 times a day). Also, he totally looks like Christopher Robin right now. And I sooo need an excuse to make him some gingham checked versions of the 100 Acre Wood shirt ( Read more... )

What a crazy spring! It looks like summer will be a little mellower (as we get geared up for a crazy fall....)

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I want to preface this by saying that I AM NOT a Montessori teacher. I haven't done any of the training. I probably have it all backwards. Everything I know is from books and blogs and occasional visits to Montessori classrooms. I'd really love feedback and corrections from those of my friends who *do* have this training, because I want to know ( Read more... )

Dammit.
Just having one of those bummed days. Not for any special reason, just a little bummed. So I thought I'd sit here and drink my NORA tea and write about stuff that is making me happy. Maybe that will help ( Read more... )

So, I mentioned in the last postlet that this pregnancy is so far opposite of the Silas pregnancy, and I just wanted to write down (for my own posterity, if not your interest) what that meant ( Read more... )

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It seems like a long time since my last big update...Well, here we go ( Read more... )

So, I've decided to do these updates quarterly, more or less, and to make them about the whole family, not just Silas. That said, I know what you all want to see, so...It's still mostly Silas ( Read more... )

What has a cloak...

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