If they won’t eat it, maybe they’ll play with it.
I am the long suffering mother of a picky eight-year-old and a sometimes picky six-year-old. When my daughter was four she would play for hours at her pretend kitchen making up lots of delicious pretend dinners for me to pretend eat. I sometimes pretended to be her and acted like the meal was as disgusting [...]
Halloween Costumes: my favorites for 2007
Each year I start shopping for costumes in mid-October and then end up at the party supply store buying whatever’s left and spending a million dollars on it. This year I will likely do the same thing but I will have looked at all the options before I spend a million dollars on costumes for [...]
Tiny Chairs For Tiny Bottoms: Children’s Chairs
As I sat around this week thinking of what to write for today’s column I realized I’d never shared my obsession for tiny chairs. At the height of my obsession I had 7 tiny chairs in various rooms of my house. I found most of them at our local flea market and one adorable wicker [...]
Recipe Binders: keeping recipes close at hand, beautifully
About, I don’t know, four months ago someone emailed me asking for recipe storage suggestions. I hope my dear reader didn’t lose all her recipes in the time it’s taken me to get to this topic. I have started organizing recipes I want to try on my computer in a bookmark folder, I try to [...]
They Grow Like Weeds: Best Growth Charts For Kids
Right before we put our house on the market I had to paint over our door frame growth chart where we’d tracked our kid’s rapid (Maddie has the growing pains to prove it) growth over the last 8 years. I took pictures of it for the sake of the memories, but I wish we’d had [...]
The Best Children’s Number Art.
A few months ago we looked at alphabet toys and decor. In the last couple of weeks I’ve run across a couple prints which help your kids learn their numbers and decorate their rooms. Robin Rosenthal’s counting birds poster at Etsy has a delicious color scheme and is just about the perfect price. In case [...]
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