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DIY: Summer Pajama Pants
I’ve been wanting to make some summer pajama pants for a while (and by “summer”, I mean cropped about 3/4ths length).… Read MoreI finally got around to doing it! I used the pattern in Amy Butler’s In Stitches. The first time I tried it, I trimmed too much off the sides (I didn’t want them to be so billowy), and they ended up not pulling over my hips. I had to give them to Krista, a visitor from Canada who was passing through on a road trip adventure.
The second time I tried it, I followed the pattern exactly. This time, the waist is too high. I kind of look
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Helping Children Develop a Solid Foundation
I’ve been following Monica’s journey back to full-time work away from the home over at Attachment Mama. Her post about all the separation anxiety and emotional turmoil the change is creating within her family makes my heart ache.
On the one hand, I think it’s healthy for children to experience discomfort and some uncertainty. Those emotions are most definitely part of all of our lives, and I believe that we need to cultivate the ability to be comfortable in those moments. We need to develop self-soothing mechanisms in order to cope with inevitable discomfort and uncertainty. We need to experience discomfort and uncertainty in order to practice dealing with … Read More -
We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Broadcast
I’ve been working on a few blog updates (as part of my master plan for summer vacation). I wanted to bring a few of them to your attention.Without further ado:
- I now have an RSS feed in the right-hand sidebar beneath my profile. I didn’t even know I didn’t have one (it’s dangerous when we don’t know what we don’t know). Thanks to Michelle for requesting one! Please let me know if it works…
- You’ll notice there are new buttons at the bottom of every post. If you’re feeling generous, please click on them sometimes. They’ll help me spread the word about my little humble corner of the
