What My Kids Are Reading: Once Upon a Goat & Where’s Spot.

Margot: 3 Years Once Upon A Goat by Dan Richards My second child, Max, was not an easy baby. First, there was the getting pregnant (a story for another day). Then, there was the staying pregnant (also a whole thing, and Ali Wong explains it better than I could). Then…

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Montessori(ish)

Welcome to a new section of THE BLOG! When I first had kids, I read up on Montessori parenting philosophy and, to be honest, was not a fan. It seemed so organized and regimented: two things I most certainly am not. Also, maintaining some of the systems it promotes sounded…

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What My Kids Are Reading: The Invisible Boy

My daughter, Margot, loves looking at yearbooks. The yearbook from her first year at daycare is her favorite; however, she also enjoys random yearbooks she finds in school offices, thrift store yearbooks, and the yearbooks from my own childhood that are still tucked neatly into the shelves of my old…

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Super Unique Reflections: 6/8/2020

*Don’t worry, I know none of these things are unique. But they’re good, so listen up.  What I’m Reading:  Starting: Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter  Finishing: Swing Time by Zadie Smith  Pretty Girls is, in fact, about “pretty girls.” More specifically, “pretty girls who get murdered.” It’s dark, and creepy,…

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Quarantine Toy Roundup

Quarantine has turned my home into a really shady preschool. I have never been super organized (or organized at all really), but the number of toys, art projects, chunks of dog hair (?!), etc. laying around the house are currently at an all time high. The other day I was…

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