Ever since I stumbled upon her site I’ve been so inspired by Meg from Sew Liberated. In addition to a great blog she writes some awesome patterns (including this one that I’ve made multiple times). She trained as a Montessori teacher so I’m always looking to her blog for ideas about activities and environments for …
Monthly Archives: February 2011
This Moment
Joining in on Amanda’s this moment project. A moment from the last week. A slice of life.
How about a night out?
If you’ve been reading my blog for long you’ve heard me talk about CASA. Well I was introduced via a friend to another organization that helps foster kids. This one aims to reunite siblings for one week in the summer at a special camp. Bj and I talked a few years ago about what we …
The Poof
That’s what Tuesday is calling beanbags these days, poofs. I decided to make a giant poof for my sweetest littlest clients: the newborns. Originally I thought the big FatBoy bean bag we got would work, but it’s just too floppy and not filled enough. Plus Tuesday adopted that for her room. I looked into buying …
This moment
Joining in on Amanda’s this moment project. A moment from the last week. A slice of life.
Help me to do it myself
I’ve been reading a lot of Montessori books lately as I work on fixing up part of the basement to be a sort of preschool learning area for Tuesday. The phrase, “Help me to do it myself” comes up a lot. I love the idea of it, but we’re having trouble with the implementation over …
Let me save you the trouble.
Do you have a basement? Do you want to carpet it? Please, PLEASE read this post and let me save you the hassle that was our weekend. OH MY GOODNESS! what a chore it was (and still is since it’s not quite finished). Just a little refresher: When I first moved in to this place …
My first birth
It’s really late, or really early, or whatever. I just got back from photographing my first birth. Amazing, and humbling and just so so cool. I’m on a total birth high, and I didn’t even have to give birth! p.s. he beat Valentine’s day by one minute.
This Moment
Joining in on Amanda’s this moment project. A moment from the last week. A slice of life.
The lower level IS a basement
Oh my goodness my annoying yet awesome basement. I love the size, I love the extra space (I love that it has windows), but every time I work on something down there it turns into A FREAKING DISASTER. Ok maybe not that bad. But the last time I did a little work down there this …