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I was going to post this a year ago but found it just now when I was culling old silly posts to hide them. I don’t know how I missed sharing this – maybe it failed the transfer to my new blog. Anyways – This must be shared. It’s one of my best friends birthday’s [...]
Houses can be full of what-ifs; Studios can have only certainties. In a house you’ll pack the linen closet with sheets enough to remake every bed twice, just in case. In the studio, it will just be much easier to keep track of one extra set for each bed. In the house you’ll keep a [...]
We’re giving it up on an extremely short experiment of crying-it-out. My extremely short, I mean we let him cry himself to sleep once, in a one and a half night experiment. My husband is programmed to be an attachment parent and since I’m hardly more of a hard-ass than he, I’m giving in. We’re [...]
I’ve learned a lot about being a person and about being a white person by living in a non-white community, not enough, but a fair amount. Whites usually don’t understand what the “big deal” about racism is because they usually live in the white-dominant culture, where difference never confronts them and everything is “normal.” What [...]
Woken up at 4:11 a.m. by police officer outside of our apartment – car broken into (doors unlocked, alarm went off, nothing taken). Yay VW for making a car that turns the alarm on, even if the doors aren’t locked. Murder trial, 10:30 a.m. Man killed his kids. Graphic picture hopefully not forever imprinted into [...]
In addition to my growing list of goof off links at right, don’t forget stuffonmycat.com where this lovely pic is from. Just look at that tiny pillow! And tiny cat comforter? This cat is really going to grow up right.
Well after all that hullabaloo about the Montessori Child Bedroom, we packed up that room and all the other rooms in our house and moved to our first studio apartment. The only thing montessori-style now is that we still don’t have a crib, he still has his floor bed, and rug and easily accessible baskets [...]
And this, my friends, is the biggest challenge of the Montessori Child Bedroom: Sleep training.
It’s July now; Baby is growing. I work at the computer, or try, while Baby tries to climb up me, constantly trying to hang off of me, like a little monkey. I set him down realizing that he must learn to hang on his own, as we won’t survive into childhood with him attached to [...]
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