Why is some food 100 times more attractive after the toddler has left the table? It’s one of life’s mysteries; but there are some things I really want her to eat that I end up hand feeding her, bite by bite, while she’s running...
Today’s new word of the day from Bella: “Mama, go now!” as she runs to the back door and tugs on the handle. It’s definitely a cognitive step up from her previous, “Go, go!” I didn’t realize she understood...
Librophiliacs Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries
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Bella is starting to string words together: “snow fall”, “all done, get down”, and most recently: “bodu, p’ease agin, mama” (book, please again, mama). She starts chanting “pease again” whenever...
Isabella falls asleep while mama reads her a book. Daddy snaps a picture before carrying her off to bed. Naptime is so easy now!
Karen Edmisten writes about Emily Dickinson today for poetry Friday and I felt inspired to put up one of Emily’s poems myself. I learned this one because it’s printed on a candle that I found in the guest bathroom of my parents’...
If I were still teaching composition classes this blog post, “I’d Rather Be Hated Than Used” at Diary of a Mad Editor would be on required reading list. It tells the story of the sort of intellectual property theft that is, sadly...
This is just too cool. Father Philip links to a whole slew of animated video clips. I’m pretty sure the voice on all of them is Billy Collins. I have a cd of The Best Cigarette, Collins reading some of his own work. The voice sounds the same...
This is one of my favorite things. In the morning I put a barrette in Bella’s hair to keep it out of her face. At night when I’m undressing her to put her in the bath, I remove the barrette and place it on the ledge in the bathroom...
Often I worry that my deep-seated introverted, nay hermit-like, tendencies are depriving Isabella of experiences that she should be having: playgroups, outings to all sorts of toddler-centered activities, story time at the library, baby gymnastics...
