This Rumer Godden novel was a pleasant surprise. The title grabbed me—how could I not be intrigued, even if India is not my favorite setting? But the real surprise is that this is a sort of companion novel to Coromandel Sea Change, which I...
I thought since it was clean for once, I’d snap some pics of the girls’ room. So here it is, all clean and pretty: With a couple of photos of Sophie standing at the mirror, thrown in for fun. And here are a few of my newly cleaned up...
I’ve been feeling more and more energy and less and less nausea in the past two weeks. I think getting to Texas was a huge help too. Anyway today I had a huge spurt of energy and Dom and I did lots of stuff around the house. I straightened and...
I got my new issue of mater et magistra yesterday. And my book review is in it! (Originally published on the blog, republished at love2learn.net) Ok, so I knew ahead of time that it would be, but still there’s nothing quite so exciting as...
Sophia was crawling around on the kitchen floor while I made dinner this evening. When I looked down to see what she was into, I saw her holding a raw potato that she had fished out of a bowl on the lowest shelf. There was a bite-sized chunk missing...
Both girls have had runny noses for about a week now; but no other symptoms. Today, however, Bella has been very very cranky and at times her crying has been hysterical and inconsolable. We had a nice warm day so I took her outside after breakfast;...
It’s taken long enough; but she’s finally crawling.
Crawling Sophia from Domenico Bettinelli on Vimeo.
Dom had to try out his new video camera tonight. Sophie crawling on the laundry room floor.
We got back Sunday night, but I’ve been busy unpacking and resettling. Texas was wonderful. We went from below freezing with several feet of snow on the ground in Massachusetts to low 70s, sunny, and very dry. I walked around in my...
This morning as we were leaving the park and I was encouraging Bella to “come on,” she in turn turned to her left hand and began talking to Piglet. “Come on, Piglet,” she said,” This way.” And then she told him...
All this morning Bella has been acting a bit strangely. She keeps holding her saliva in her mouth and refusing to swallow it. Which also means that most of the time she is refusing to talk as well. At times we’ve been able to get her to drink...
