In which I write a Letter to You and Me
Hey Mama, I see you there, with food colouring stained hands and a messy dining room table. I hear that deep breath you take before entering the fray. I know the questions that flit through your mind...
View ArticleFirst Day of Spring and Butterflies
This is not a crafting blog. It never will be. I love to create beautiful things for my home but I don’t get jazzed about writing how I created them step by step. There are some really awesome blogs...
View ArticleSmall Style: The Three Year Old Version
Being three is such an interesting age. It’s an age of discovery, of knowledge and creativity. It’s an age of becoming. When one is three, one is not yet big and yet, not little. One is just three....
View ArticleIn Which We Painted Rocks and Learned the Alphabet
When we went to the ocean last week, it was such a breath of fresh air, literally. I feel like I got a new perspective on life and on my little girls. They’re just little and as everybody reminds me...
View ArticleWhat We’re Into: 4.19.2013 Edition and A Giveaway!
Eating I used our steamer basket that we brought back from Taiwan 4 years ago for the first time this week. It was so fun and will definitely be using it again and a lot more often! For our first meal,...
View ArticleOn Being Mom and Being a Person
The snow is completely gone now and there are flowers blooming everywhere. The crocuses made the first appearance, poking through last year’s dead leaves and small remnants of snow. Then it is the...
View Article17/52
a picture of my girls, every week, once a week in 2013 Just a little everyday mess and beauty, my big girl helping me paint and my baby girl entertaining herself until she was ‘all done’. Khaira still...
View ArticleSaying yes to the Mess and making Beauty with Littles
I loaded the girls up in the tiny, red cart at Michaels and reminded them to sit down and not touch anything. I had a list, I wanted to get in and out as fast as possible. Browsing a big store with...
View ArticlePreschool-ish Thoughts
I’m traveling this week, a little time away with my husband, a little time with a dear friend, and a little time to celebrate my Nana’s 90 birthday with my family on the West Coast. Last September we...
View ArticleSimple Art Projects for Little People
It’s the simplest of activities, really. But it has captured my girls’ interest this winter and it’s something that occupies them for a decent length of time. For my children, that’s an hour. And...
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