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Update on Holiday Traditions
My resolution to be more festive and create new traditions this year has been both good and bad. I’ll start with the bad: it’s been a little stressful to try to fit a holiday activity into every evening.… Read MoreOn most nights, Matt gets home at 6:30. By the time we cook, eat, and clean up, it’s usually around 8. That gives us approximately 1.5 hours before our ideal bed time (we have to wake up at 5:30 every morning). Matt has to write a blog post every night, and we also like to do things like watch movies, read to “Coconut,” putz around on our computers, play with Hoss, etc.
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Cooking with Friends
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Last weekend, we had friends over for pancakes, and it reminded me how much I love cooking with friends. Instead of stressing about preparing everything in advance, I simply set up different cooking stations with everything our friends would need to help us prepare. Very Montessori! (Hoss, of course, set us his own station on our bed. That boy loves the sun.)For example, my friend was bringing the pancake recipe, so I put out all the ingredients that she requested in advance, as well as the measuring cups, etc. Then I set up another station for making fresh-squeezed orange juice. While our friends got busy at their stations, Matt
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Living Christmas Tree
This year Matt and I opted for a living Christmas tree. I found a local farm a little out of the city that sells them. However, we were out of town the first two weekends in December and couldn’t make the long trip, so we decided to get one from Home Depot for $50 instead.… Read MoreI was hesitant to get a living tree because I thought they would only come in small sizes, but our tree is seriously about six feet tall. I also worried that the pot would look ugly, but I simply bought 2.5 yards of fabric from IKEA and wrapped it around the bottom (no sewing required!).
