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Author: Amber

  • 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 something but once I realized how silly easy this was to make I jumped into the project. I found a tutorial on a photography forum website I belong to (Clickin Moms). But now that I’ve made this I can say you…

  • Joining in on Amanda’s this moment project. A moment from the last week. A slice of life.

  • 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 here. I know it’s normal to have whining and fussing and such, but oh man does it get on my nerves. I don’t understand it either because if Tuesday simply asked me for say, her sweatshirt off because she was hot,…

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