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Holiday Preparations
Our new holiday countdown calendar is completely ready to go. I drew up some shapes (a tree, candy cane, holly, and something else that isn’t coming to mind), wrote a festive activity on each one, laminated them (yes, I have a home laminator–I can’t help it; I’m an elementary school teacher!), and cut them out. Our plan is to start our festivities the Sunday after Thanksgiving.… Read MoreMy goal is to have all of our supplies ready in advance, so we don’t have to waste any time gathering things for our various projects. For one of the activities, we’re going to make baked goods for our colleagues. I got Matt
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DVD Review: Happiest Baby on the Block
A friend of mine recommended that I watch The Happiest Baby on the Block. She said the DVD was way better than the book, so Matt and I netflixed it.… Read MoreAlthough I found aspects of the movie disconcerting, I still recommend that parents of newborns watch it. I feel like I have some strategies in my toolkit to pull out when Matt and I are trying to cope with fussiness.
The main ideas presented by the movie are listed below. I’m not sure how I feel about swaddling, and shhh-ing really loudly in a baby’s ear seems alarming. Then there’s the whole “jiggle your baby’s head like it’s a
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Crock Pot Cooking
Now that Fall is slowly making its way to Houston and since I’ve been trying to build our cadre of easy-peasy recipes before the baby arrives, I decided to break out the crock pot.… Read MoreLast week, we ended up eating out on Tuesday and Wednesday instead of cooking the meals we bought (mainly because I was uninspired by the meals we chose, and I kept napping longer than usual). Thursday morning, I woke up with new resolve. I put our sheets in the laundry when I woke up at 5:30am (it’s part of my weekly chores, and I’ve been trying to do more stuff during the week so I
