Coco and I took our bi-monthly trip to Costco last week and scored big with a Julius! Matching Game. For under $10. There are so many pairs in this box, it’s nearly overwhelming. But so adorable and a worthy replacement of our beloved and dog-eared eBoo version. Which we can now put to rest. Pea [...]

Does anyone else have young kids who are into Starfall? My older (junior kindergarten) daughter’s teacher told us about the website at the beginning of the school year, and it’s become a pretty incredible form of ‘entertainment’ over here. Pea thinks it’s fun; we think it’s amped up her learning substantially. And if you can [...]

I want to plan a trip with the kids back to NYC just so that we can spend an entire week at Moomah.
Ever since my daughter’s teacher sent me a link to this place, I can’t get it out of my head. Every little detail about this place is just perfection. From the concept to [...]

I took Nici to my friend’s yarn shop the other day, to get her a little refresher in Knitting 101. When we walked in, my friend was working on a crown. And a hat. A crown-hat hybrid. Perfect for the coming chill. And also My Little Princess. It’s a free pattern, you can find it [...]

I know I’ve been MIA for a while, posting has been spotty at best. Honestly, I don’t know what I’m doing with this blog. There are so many out there, you know? And over the years, I’ve read and stopped reading so many, as I’m sure others have done with mine. I don’t take it [...]

We just returned from a very long weekend with the girls in Chicago, visiting my mother and her husband. It was a lot of fun, schedules and routines were tossed into the wind, and the American Girl store will now be haunting me in my dreams for weeks to come. My sweet Pea? She was [...]

As part of our plan to simplify our home, my husband and I have had several meetings of our minds about the current toy situation in our home. We have a lot of toys. Or rather, the girls have a lot of toys. So many, that this is usually how playtime goes down…
Girls: Mommy, can [...]

The local school board decided to resume classes yesterday, rather than wait until Monday. No problem for those of us who remained in town, but many families we know? Took off as soon as they heard the word that the schools were closed down. Bonus family vacation time, right? Well, we got an email, of [...]

Tomorrow morning is the baby shower that I’m hosting for my friend, who’s baby girl is due in one month. And this has been a crazy few weeks, so when I say that I really did wait until the last minute to get the details together, I’m not kidding. I did. I spent three hours [...]

Okay, plug for the French here. They’ve been on my mind since my mother, GiGi, just left town earlier today. A handful of her parting words to me, as she was getting out of the car at the airport, were, “well, the French do just do it better. All of it…”
Out of context, perhaps? Not [...]

Coco is passionate about butterflies. She’s constantly talking about them, pointing them out in pictures, giving me butterfly kisses with her impossibly long eyelashes.
So one of her birthday gifts was a little collector’s case with a dozen butterflies in it. And for a week, she dragged that box of butterflies with her everywhere she went. [...]

This one is going to be brief. I’m sick again. Sinus infection. Another round of pink eye. Gross, right? What kind of a 36-year old woman has pink eye, nearly every day, for 10 weeks? I guess the mother of these two little girls who bring home everything known to man. And then bring it [...]

Why do kids have so much stuff? Some days I feel like I’m up to my eyeballs in random collections of nothing. I regularly go through the girls’ toys and make piles for donations. Toys, puzzles and games that are too ‘old’ for them get put away for later days. Broken pieces get mended or [...]

A girlfriend of mine is having a baby the first week of May. It’s a girl. And as the mother of a 4-year old boy, I know she is thrilled beyond at the prospect of pink. Pink. Pink. Pink. And then some more pink. Who could resist?
I offered to host her baby shower. I love [...]

We’re still laid up in this house. Ear infections, fevers… the list goes on. I’m beyond the ‘woe is me’ point. In fact, I’m almost at the brink. My husband is in Vancouver for two weeks, Pea has been home from school all week, and I’m working feverishly on getting all of our tax documentation [...]