It is not quite spring yet, but look, we have a single jonquil blooming in the garden, so I am declaring it the beginning of early spring at our house! [...]
I need at least ten minutes of peace to get Muski to sleep during the day. That means I need ten minutes where the Twinadoes don’t sound like baby elephants [...]
I read a post over at Embiejo etc (doesn’t that name just roll off your tongue so nicely!) about their ‘dinner woes’. I left a comment with my ‘oh-so-wise-trying-not-to-sound-too-high-and-mighty’ advice [...]
This makes two Saturdays in a row when I have spent the better part of the morning on my hands and knees crawling through piles of toys and clothes and [...]
In celebration of my two dancing princesses – who, by the way, are driving me nuts counting the number of sleeps till they have their next lesson – this week’s [...]
I am head down bum up trying to finish up some things before pickleberrypop.com celebrates the sites second birthday! I will have a few sneaky peaks of what is in [...]
The Twinadoes went to their first ballet lesson last night. A not very good photo of them with their neat ‘ballet hair’ before we left. Decked out in ‘dancing clothes’ [...]
I must be getting older… or wiser.. or something… because in the last few years I have developed quite a lust for handmade quilts. I hassled The Great Aunts for [...]
Finally! After months of tweaking and changing. After a few catastrophic disasters and many mediocre batches… finally I think I’ve got it. I’ve mastered homemade muesli bars. This recipe is [...]
Fine motor skills are what we early childhood educators talk about when we mean all the small muscle, refined movements of the hands. It also relates to thinks like eye-hand-coordination [...]
Right before Easter, in a last minute rush, I made some printable bunny cupcake toppers. A day or so later I spied those very same little bunnies hopping through a [...]