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This time of year my day­care friends always love play­ing this game. Luckily I do not have to remem­ber the words or melody. I just watch the YouTube video that morn­ing and I am set! (How ever did we man­age before YouTube?)

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Surfing the web with your kids on a rainy day and look­ing for some­thing new and dif­fer­ent to impress them with? How about the veg­etable orches­tra? They have their own web­site, but this video on youtube sums it up nicely and caught my son’s atten­tion with its tools, kitchen gad­gets, music, and added play­ing with […]

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I learned young that houses with small chil­dren are where good fur­ni­ture comes to die. I inher­ited my first kitchen table from an aunt whose three chil­dren had spent the last 15 years break­ing it in. No amount of clean­ing could remove all the hid­den patches of stick­i­ness. When I even­tu­ally replaced that table I […]

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Happy belated Thanksgiving! We snagged a great book from the library recently! In A Plump and Perky Turkey (writ­ten by Teresa Bateman and illus­trated by Jeff Shelley) the turkeys all skip town before Thanksgiving and the town-folks try to trick them back, but (after pages of engag­ing illus­tra­tions and rhymes that please me) they end […]

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Get life insurance!

July 18, 2008

There are many rea­sons to do it, but I’ll let Susan of Toddler Planet tell you why.

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First, a note to friends and fam­ily: read noth­ing into this. Our life is full with two at the moment. We are still catch­ing up on years of sleep depri­va­tion. We are not preg­nant! Now that that’s over with… I have met a lot of beau­ti­ful three kid fam­i­lies lately. Awesome kids, stel­lar moms, great […]

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Greener Loudoun

July 12, 2008

GreenerLoudoun is a blog for all you local folks inter­ested in green­ing your lives. It cov­ers a wide range of top­ics — from infor­ma­tion on reuse and recy­cling, to how our choices affect local wildlife, to edu­ca­tional events suit­able for chil­dren. The blog is inter­spersed with fas­ci­nat­ing pho­tographs, as well.  Have a look!

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I Saw Your Nanny!

June 1, 2008

I was just going to write a post on Douglass Park, but in googling for a link to its web­site I came across another site of inter­est. I Saw Your Nanny is a site where you can anony­mously post accounts about nan­nies pro­vid­ing care you find to be ques­tion­able. As both a par­ent (who has […]

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SuperNoVa Mom

June 1, 2008

SuperNoVa Mom seems to have a lot in com­mon with Active Family Services, LCC. Her blog is full of tips for local moms on places to go and things to do, but cov­ers a wider region than ours. She pub­lishes a week­end line up of DC Metro Area fam­ily events, has a sep­a­rate blog listing […]

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