From the monthly archives:

May 2009

May 7, 2009

Jordan sent me the link to this roll of Facestape she saw on Hi & Low. Wouldn’t your kids have hours of fun with this stuff? Wouldn’t you? Share and Enjoy:

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Mother’s Day Giveaway Week 2009 — Blue Poppy Jewelry

May 6, 2009

For the third Giveaway this week, the prize is an amazing ebony and gold Poppy Necklace and pair of Poppy Pod Earrings from Blue Poppy Jewelry. Please don’t faint from all the gorgeousness. The necklace and earring combo sell for $202. I’ve been featuring Blue Poppy since they launched back in the day with a [...]

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First Week in Colorado

May 6, 2009

Friends! The truck arrived Monday morning. Mayflower gave us a window of May 5th to May 8th. But I told the driver as he was heading off that sooner was better — and score! he was able to arrive a day early on May 4th. We tried to be as generous as we could with [...]

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Mother’s Day Giveaway Week 2009 — All About Cute’s Orla Kiely Shoulder Bag

May 5, 2009

For the second Giveaway this week, the prize is a fab shoulder Orla Kiely Shoulder Bag from All About Cute. Again, winner’s choice — you can pick flower stem, pear, or my favorite: multistem hatch. Each bag sells for $175. If you’ve been reading this blog for very long, you know I’m in love with [...]

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Mother’s Day Giveaway Week 2009 — Sakura Bloom Sling

May 4, 2009

For the first Giveaway this week, the prize is a gorgeous Artisan sling from Sakura Bloom. Winner’s choice. These slings are truly luxurious, beautifully detailed and made from handwoven duponi silk. There is nothing finer that you could wrap your precious baby in. Sakura Bloom offers slings in linen and silk — the silk ones [...]

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Mother’s Day Giveaway Week 2009

May 4, 2009

It’s here! A whole week of giveaways dedicated to celebrating Moms. Be here every day this week for a generous giveaway — plus two on Friday. These aren’t just any old giveaways. Each prize is amazing and was hand-picked by me. And as I mentioned before, each prize is generous. I hope you’ll spread the [...]

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Moving Day Highlights

May 4, 2009

Unexpected happy things that happened on moving day: 1) A surprise neighborhood breakfast. Our street has a first-day-of-school-tradition of breakfast on the lawn while we wait for the school bus. As a super sweet farewell, our neighbors held a send-off breakfast for our family in the same tradition. We were touched and delighted. Everybody enjoyed [...]

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Happy May

May 1, 2009

So happy about an early Mother’s Day gift for myself: a new toaster for our new home. A four-slicer, no less! We’ve been managing with an inadequate-for-our-big-family-2-slicer for many, many years now, but it was time for an upgrade. Meet the Breville Die-Cast 4-Slice Smart Toaster. This beauty is scheduled to arrive on my doorstep [...]

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Changing Diapers, Changing Minds — by Guest Mom Amy of Progressive Pioneer

May 1, 2009

We started out using cloth diapers with our baby Sam from the very beginning, so I have little to compare them to. However, it seems to me that cloth diapers have come a long way and are far more user friendly than the white squares and pins of the past. Most have velcro and stretchy [...]

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From Tree to Chair — by Guest Mom Amy of Progressive Pioneer

May 1, 2009

I go weak in the knees over the right piece of furniture. I love the warmth and honeyed color of real, solid wood. There is really nothing I’d rather sit down to a good meal in, than a great, hand-crafted chair. Growing up in Maine, where everything is steeped in history, we had our fair [...]