I love hanging clothes on the clothesline. First, saving energy makes me feel virtuous & warm & fuzzy & At One With the Earth. Not that I’m going to go all radical homemaker on you. Although, come to think of it, I can also churn butter. Another thing I like about using the clothesline is … [Read more…]
So the nice ladies at the Momxchange blog said all sorts of lovely things about me, which was too kind of them. You should check them out. Among other things, they are much more likely to notice things like shopping opportunities for mommies–as I’ve mentioned before, I am not a shopper. I’ve also started contributing … [Read more…]
Wasn’t I just telling you that you should probably be reading Nippertown? Well, I have to plug them again for sharing the link to the live webcam of a hummingbird nest, complete with hatching eggs! How fun is that? I would like to show my children, but they are outside playing, and I can’t exactly … [Read more…]
We spent Friday night at my sister’s. I always say that if I had three times as much money and ten times as much personal style and I didn’t have children running my house, I’d have a house just like hers. Everything is carefully chosen and beautiful. But I have to say, we did provide … [Read more…]
Okay, so one item that I missed in the weekend round-up is that kids are invited to paint eggs from Cooper’s Ark Farm at the Schenectady Greenmarket this Sunday. Second, I just had to show you one of the castles that we’ll have as centerpieces for our nursery school’s Family Dinner. Cute, right? Paper towel … [Read more…]
I finally sewed the hole in my down coat! For the past several weeks, every time I sat down in my car too forcefully, a little flurry of feathers would float around the car’s interior. It just felt like such a discouraging way to start a trip–somehow it made me feel quite hefty, like the … [Read more…]
Get a bowl full of clean snow. Add milk (or cream or half-n-half) until it’s wet enough, sugar until it’s sweet enough, and vanilla. I always have the economy-sized imitation vanilla for wintertime. We don’t do exact measurements–it’s a lot of dumping and stirring, really.  So it’s a good kid activity. Usually by the time … [Read more…]
I apologize for the re-post. . . somehow this post completely disappeared from my blog. I’m still baffled. But I wanted to keep this available. The news from Haiti is so horrible. I thought that this site, which talks a little about how you can give most effectively when there’s a disaster far away, was … [Read more…]
We have groovy modern windows in our otherwise decrepit old house, and one of the perks is that I can open them from the top. It’s perfect for harvesting icicles. We lay out a towel and I give each girl the longest icicle I can reach, then go downstairs. When they yell for another one … [Read more…]
So, I attempted to be useful while J was doing gymnastics today–both the girls are loving it, and the next session at World Class is starting next week. Incidentally, J’s little friend has decided to switch to dance and J said, “I’m a little sad that she is in retirement from gymnastics. We are very … [Read more…]
