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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We’ve camped with 9 month to 7 year-old kids in California, Utah, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland — we hope to cover lots more territory in the coming years. Each time we camp we learn a few things. Then, thinking perhaps we’ve discovered it all, we take another trip where we fall down again and learn more. It’s […]
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We had lots of fun making kick-the-can ice cream at the Rust Nature Sanctuary’s spring Eco Fair a few months ago, and finally drank enough mediocre coffee for a repeat performance at Playschool. I found recipes and instructions at Kaboose.com and dairyspot.com and then co-mingled and finessed them to work with the contents of my […]
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My breast-fed daughter was extremely sensitive to dairy as an infant. It presented at around 6 weeks — in the middle of our cross-country move — as extreme fussiness and obvious tummy pain. It finally went away, for the most part, within a week or two once I completely cut dairy out of my diet. This meant […]
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There are so many ticks out there this year! It can be a tricky line to walk wanting to get the kids outdoors but also wanting to keep them safe from nasty chronic stuff like lyme disease. I talked to our ped’s office extensively about this after finding our first deer tick — which looked […]
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After numerous false starts Peter has created the bookshelves I have been wanting for over a year. I like it so much I put him to work on another set of shelves. In the end all it took was a half dozen wooden dowels, screws, hand saw, electric drill, and no more than an hour to […]
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Here’s what worked for us: soak in hot soapy water indefinitely, scrub a little with sponge, and then finish the job with rubbing alcohol (or the strongest stuff in your liquor cabinet if you don’t have rubbing alcohol). Good luck!
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This post is not meant to dismiss stay at home dads or any hands-on work outside the home parent as needing a list of ideas, but to respond to the fact that (like or not) in many areas stay at home moms are often the primary provider, and sometimes they might need to give their […]
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Once our kids started to show an interest in climbing I switched to the pack and play which seems to be harder to climb out of, and by approx 18 months they were in mattresses on the floor — which seem safer than toddler beds to me, and are more comfortable on nights when one […]
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