I am tired. Uncharacteristically tired. Every night for the past week, as I lay beside my 1-year-old at 8:00pm and wait for her to drift off to sleep, I almost fall asleep. Selling everything and planning a cross-country giving trek is exhausting (to say the least). We have so many things in limbo – it’s […]
2 Books on My Nightstand
When I was a little girl, I would beg my mom to take us to the library at least once a week. Every time we went, I would walk out of the library with a stack of books higher than my head. And I would read ALL of them. Decades later, I’m still a voracious […]
My Baby Read Her First Word Tonight
Up until about two months ago, we didn’t let our daughter watch TV. No Dora, No Sesame Street, No Baby Einstein, No Lion King. None. Zip. Nada. Not even “secondhand” TV. We made this choice for a number of reasons. We wanted to spend our moments outdoors and engaged in play and storytime. We felt […]
