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Revitalized Spaces
There are spaces in my home that bug me every time I walk by them. The thing about those kind of spaces is that they typically only take about 15 minutes to transform. So I generally spend several hours (if you add up all the seconds I spend being bothered by them each day) thinking about corners that don’t take very much time to fix. Oy!
In this case, one area was really bothering me: the bookshelf in our bedroom. The thing about that bookshelf is that I see it for several hours each night as I work on my computer from my bed.… Read MoreOne night I decided to do
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Bye, Bye Pacifier
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I remember the indecision and uncertainty I faced when deciding whether or not to introduce a pacifier into my first son’s life. The Montessori philosophy recommends against the use of pacifiers (as do a whole host of books about helping your babies sleep well), but I really felt like my son needed the extra support to help soothe himself.
Around 14 months, he started daycare and his teacher helped us wean him off of it. We started by limiting its use just to nap time and bedtime. And then we just stopped using it all together.
We started the same thing with Tate when he hit the 14 month-mark. I
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How We Spend Our Days
There’s so much that shifts in your life when you have children! I feel like we are always having to change our home environment to accommodate my children’s developmental stages. Just when I finally get around to moving things off the bottom shelf out of Tate’s crawling reach, then he’s walking and I have to do it all over again!There are also shifts in the kinds of activities we spend our days doing. I remember being so happy when Henry reached the age when he no longer put every.single.thing in his mouth and we could finally take him to the park to crawl around.Our family is in a… Read More
