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    Essential Montessori Infant Products

    Henry’s whale mobile (from his nursery tour)

    A friend of mine from my pre-natal yoga class asked me what baby products are useful when trying to implement the Montessori philosophy at home with an infant. After I spent way too long replying to the e-mail (I should have just picked up the phone!), I realized that I should also write a post about it.

    We’ve only been implementing Montessori for eights weeks with Henry, but here’s a list of things that have been really useful to us:

    1. A movement mat: Henry spends a lot of his awake time on his movement mat, looking at mobiles, looking at his black
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    Book Club: Chapter One

    I’m so glad we’re doing this together! A little community of accountability. I started to read this book six years ago, and the chapters that I read truly revolutionized my life. But, for some reason, I never got around to finishing it (which is the opposite of being a highly effective person!).

    Perhaps I should pose some questions to make this a bona fide book club?

    Let me see:

    1. Which ideas from the chapter resonated with you?
    2. Did you disagree with anything?
    3. How will your life be different now that you’ve read this chapter? In other words, what are you specific action steps that you generated from reading this chapter?
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    Etsy Find

    I fell in love with this image of basket containers via Martha Stewart and then later that day I saw this basket on the front page off Etsy for $12.50. I snatched it up with my allowance money. But later, when I showed the photo to Matt, he said he really liked it and he was fine if we used our joint funds to buy it. Woo-hoo!

    There are a few parts of our house that need work. Every time I pass by them, they bother me, and yet I haven’t yet done anything about them. Argh! As I said a while ago, it often only takes 15 minutes
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