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Friday, October 19, 2012
Friday, August 24, 2012
Jacob and Faith and I took a little trip to Santa Cruz. We needed to find an apartment for Jacob for the school year, but we also made a little vacation of it, going around town together and having fun. Santa Cruz is awesome but my kids are even more awesome. It was such a treat to get to spend time with them.Some things we did:visiting Natural Brideswalking along West Cliff driveeating late breakfast at The Bagelryseeing a movie at the...
Friday, August 17, 2012
I had some dried beans that were way past their date and I wanted to get rid of them. I decided to pour them into a dish and make a temporary indoor sensory "table" for Rainer. He has definitely had some fun playing with the beans and burying the ladybug rocks the boys painted for my birthday. Now the beans have gotten a bit of extra use before I toss th...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
When Carrie was here she passed along this great tip for remembering your vitamins: use a "med minder"! Med minders are those plastic "days of the week" containers that old people use to organize their medications. It had never occurred to me to use one of these for vitamins, but as soon as I saw Carrie's I became obsessed with the idea. I love having things neatly organized and I love structure and routine, so this is right up my alley. ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
On Sunday Jacob, Faith, Dieter and Rainer set out for Santa Barbara* for a simple day trip. It's always so fun when I have my big kids and little kids all together. It makes me smile for sure.We had a great time visiting the Ty Warner Sea Center (we get in free with our Natural History Museum membership--so we can go and stay as long or short as we want. It's always fun). It is small, but my kids are really into it. Right now there...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
I decided to try some clothes from Tea for the boys. I really like their current catalog but mostly I decided to try Tea right now because Rainer has been going through a picky phase and I wanted to try their soft knit pants for him. He doesn't like anything with big inside pockets or flaps to annoy him. I am happy with everything so far. In the photos he is wearing the denim-look knit pants and he loves them. I also got...
Saturday, August 4, 2012
I made these "dinner white cloths" recently. They are a solution to the problem of Ken not liking any of our cloth napkins. Instead, he insists on using one of these ratty white cloths (it's not that they so ratty, exactly, but the way they are in constant use in our kitchen makes them dulled and grey in no time--not pretty for a dinner napkin). I understand why Ken prefers this type of cloth as a napkin--they are really absorbent...
Friday, August 3, 2012
I'm feeling the need to squeeze in as much summery goodness as possible right now. School and work are looming large on the horizon. Summer is SO hard to give up.We went back to Carpinteria. This time we visited Crushcakes Capinteria, Curious Cup (a bookstore where we saw those fabulous finger narwhals) and Rincon Park again. It was chilly today and it even rained a bit (sprinkled). Dramatic weather for Southern California. ...
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