October 2006

Awesome Laurie just sent me a link to these amazing window panels at Urban Outfitters. Some really lovely choices. Definitely check these out. Thanks for the heads up, Laurie. Share and Enjoy:

Remember my post about selling the Eurovan? Well, we haven’t had the heart to do it — especially now that our awesome road trip reminded me that the VW is actually designed for awesome roadtrips. What in the world are we going to replace it with? Plus, I think it’s a really good candidate for [...]

Shannan from Michigan writes: I am looking for fairly inexpensive, cute matching Holiday Dresses for my daughters. I have one that is a princess and one that’s a tom-boy but too young to know, so I want something a little “foofy”, as my oldest, Abbigail would say. Any suggestions? Thanks Shannan for the excellent question:For [...]

Despite my obnoxious previous post, there are many beautiful things in the FAO catalog that I would actually consider buying. For example, these stacking blocks are gorgeous. I’m a long-time fan of stacking blocks and don’t actually need another set, but if you don’t have any consider these. They are made of wood and the [...]

-So clean. No awful smells.-Built on a grid so I could find my way around easily. -Not much traffic congestion. Parking was easy to find and relatively cheap. -Lots of charming old neighborhoods that looked like an architectural combo of Greenwich Village and San Francisco. -Friendly and talkative inhabitants.-St. Lawrence Market is a farmers market [...]

Last Thursday at 11:00pm we called our hotel in Toronto to let them know we would be getting in at about 1:00am instead of midnight and to ask them to hold the room because we were driving through a surprise snow storm. A half an hour later, at 11:30pm all traffic stopped ahead of us. [...]

This is my farewell post until next Tuesday. We are driving to Toronto this afternoon. Smart Ben is presenting a paper at a conference there on Saturday. So excited for a beautiful fall drive through upstate New York. So excited to see Toronto — I’ve never been. So excited to see Niagara Falls — never [...]

I think I’ve found a great project for my kids — for Maude especially because she is amazing with her hands. I’m excited about this kit for making felted wool balls with a little jingle bell inside. I think they would be fun to make, fun to play with and so pretty sitting on display [...]

We have a wonderful Halloween tradition we’ve practiced for the last 4 or 5 years: For bedtime stories in October we gather in the living room, light spooky candles and read scary stories in the flickering light. At the end of the stories each child gets to blow out a candle. I can’t believe how [...]