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The End of Summer
Lake Louise in Canada[insert small sigh]… Read MoreI’m kind of lamenting the end of summer. School officially starts today. I go back to teaching 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders at a public Montessori school in Houston. I’m excited to return to the classroom for another year (it gets easier every year!), and I am even eager for fall to arrive.
It’s been a good season. I made it through my first trimester of pregnancy relatively unscathed. I also envisioned and then executed an online course about preparing our minds, bodies, and lives for pregnancy. I also went on three amazing trips: a yoga retreat, a road trip from California to
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Sleep Training
I’ve been reading as much as I can about how to take care of an infant. Once our baby is here, we won’t really have much opportunity to consult the books!… Read MoreA friend of mine recommended the book, Heading Home with Your Newborn. It’s been a decent resource for me, with some topics being more in-depth and helpful than others. I know I’m dorky, but my plan is to create laminated, half-page reference cards for myself on different topics, so the information is easy to access when we’re inundated with life as new parents. I’ll be sure to share them, once I have time to create them.
My midwife
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Craft Date
My dear friend, Katie, and I got together for our monthly crafting date this past Saturday. I spent most of my time quilting a mat that my students can use for the Montessori math materials. However, at the very end of our time, I whipped together a maternity skirt.… Read MoreHere’s what I did:
- I folded one yard of a stretchy knit in half (with right side matched to right side).
- I laid one of my stretchy skirts on top of it to use as a makeshift pattern.
- I cut around the edges and the bottom of the skirt (I forgot to leave a seam allowance–oops!).
- Then I sewed up the
