I’ve been working a lot in the gardens, MFH has been busy, and StrongBaby has reached the Age of Mischief.
I made a laundry bag from yet another tablecloth. I usually don’t like to cut up perfectly good vintage linens, but this one was rather garish and had barely been used, let alone loved to [...]
I’ve been hit hard by a combination of seasonal allergies and being sick this week.
TLG has been teaching himself to sing, OLC has been practicing writing and a little Spanish, and StrongBaby has reached the dancing-on-the-coffee-table stage of babyhood.
I’ve been reading off and on; just finished Thomas Sowell’s Vision of the Anointed. I [...]
…my children are much more interested in being read to.
I’ve also been doing some sewing off and on: two tablecloth skirts done, two to go. More than a year ago I was given a better sewing machine than my crotchety old one, and I finally took the time to figure out how to [...]
…and everything is going my way.” That is what keeps going through my head every time I see another commentary on Rosen’s misstep into deep Mommy Wars doo-doo. (It is a paraphrased line from an upbeat song that was…um…not originally about babies.)
I’ve been tweaking household routines since we moved, and it has occurred [...]
OLC and I did some quick experiments in painting on colored fabric with bleach yesterday. I wanted to try putting bleach into a dried-out marker for a homemade bleach pen. It worked, once the last of the ink was rinsed out, but it was drippy and tended to snag on the light fabric [...]
Let’s build a new house.
Let’s build the new house out of the old house.
Let’s live in the old house until the new house is finished.
–Remy Charlip, Arm in Arm
Now that moving chores and tax season have begun to subside, I have been working (in my spare moments) on drafting an A-line skirt pattern for myself, [...]
A while back, I bought my very own copy of Lord, Please Meet Me in the Laundry Room: Heavenly Help for Earthly Moms, by Barbara Curtis (whose blog, Mommy Life, is one of my daily reads).
I particularly like this quote from it:
Somehow He made me understand that a mother of toddlers just isn’t like [...]
Sallie has a good link about the extent that companies will go to, to gather information on their customers. In this case, it is Target trying to figure out as early as they can which customers are expecting babies, based on items purchased; the birth of a child disrupts parents’ spending patterns, and so [...]
We found a new place; it was probably the easiest housing search I’ve ever had. No beige, thank God. Now for the hard part: getting our stuff there. So far I’ve just been purging; we’ve been living the frugal life hard the past few years, to cope with various major expenses, [...]
We’ve been thinking for a while now about moving to a new place–and kind of living paycheck-to-paycheck in terms of certainty about the future–but now circumstances have conspired to pick the date for us: by the end of February, we will be out of this particular beige shoebox-shaped living space. God only knows [...]