I have fallen in love with the blog Simply Breakfast, and I wanted to share it with you--along with this photo, which reminds me of how amazing the yogurt is in France and how I'd like some right this moment. Bon appetit. [Photo: Simply Breakfast]
Read More[caption id="attachment_182" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Carson, in the white chair that is an odd but comforting addition to our kitchen, with baby Russell watching"][/caption] I let some of my old strong-held beliefs go when I became a mom--like my thinking on toys and kids' stuff. Never would
Read MoreAs much as I've tried, I just can't get into wallpaper--on walls. But in frames? Now we're talking. I saw this idea, from DIY Ideas, over at Abbey Goes Design Scouting (and P.S. Abbey just had a baby--congrats on the little guy!). I think a variation
Read More"Mama, I need a menu," exclaimed Carson, my 2 year old, while sitting at the kitchen table waiting for his dinner to be made. By me. P.S. I love strawberries. [Photo: zoha_n via Flickr]
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One of my neighbors and friends, Annette, here in my cute and quirky Seattle neighborhood, has an amazing city garden that’s starting to rival Martha Stewart’s. Seriously–name a fruit, veggie, herb or berry–and she probably has it in the ground. (And P.S. she also has chickens–in the city!) So on a walk this afternoon with the kiddos, I caught myself gazing longingly at her rows of tomatoes and squares of eggplant, along with the cranberry plants and the mysterious sprigs of lime-green poking out of the earth everywhere. She noticed my curiosity and plucked a leaf off a plant and handed it to me today. It looked a lot like spinach, but when I took a bite, I was blown away. It tasted exactly like …
Happy Friday, friends! My list of happy things
Read MoreRandom: I saw this cover and instantly was 12 again. In a hyper-color sweatshirt. With bad hair (and flipped up bangs). Sipping a strawberry-kiwi Koala Springs. (P.S. I remember thinking that the girl on the cover with the pink sweatshirt was soooooo cool. I wanted
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The beautiful Leigh over at the blog Marvelous Kiddo wrote in her bio that she was raised as an “unschooler.” A what? How had I not heard of this word in my 31 years? I’m familiar with home schooling, of course, because my mom home-schooled my sister, brothers and me for a short time, a fact that I still find amazing. (I was only home for a brief stint between moving from one school district to another, and though I give my mom props for doing it, I don’t think it suited me). But unschooling? I had no idea. So, fascinated, I googled it, and found this interesting definition from the site, unschooling.com …
I've been pregnant or post-pregnant (you know, the muffin-top phase) for the last two and a half years (kid count: 2), and it feels a little like I've been living on another planet or maybe stowed away in a bunker. In yoga pants. Now that
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