When you make your own freezer jam, sometimes making a pb&j looks like this.
Getting her out of her own head
Since allowing Amelia to watch Disney’s The Little Mermaid on Sunday night, I have had to think up lots and lots of good ways to get her out of her terrible bedtime-anxiety-thought-spirals. She gets herself really worked up: afraid of getting afraid while thinking of the scary parts of the movie. Even though I distinctlyContinue reading “Getting her out of her own head”
Dinner at Laughing Planet
BYO Superheroes
Conversations with Baxter
B is home recovering from a random fever today, and we’ve had some fun talks in which I’ve gathered interesting information: He thinks it is crazy that The Princess In Black has not yet been made into a movie. He thinks that George Lucas should produce it, since he did a good job on Star Wars. HeContinue reading “Conversations with Baxter”
Baxter just woke up from his first official nightmare, which was that black widows were crawling in his bed. This kid plays for keeps. Now, I can’t sleep.
A candid conversation about the anatomy of plants
Amelia and I were eating some of the previously mentioned strawberries for lunch. Suddenly she said, “Mom look: stamens!” And we started talking about how the green flowery-looking stem of a strawberry is actually the cover of the bud of the strawberry flower, and that the flower was pollinated by bees probably, but other animalsContinue reading “A candid conversation about the anatomy of plants”
Ripe strawberries
I got half a flat of ripe strawberries at the Milwaukie Farmers Market today and just made 5 jars of freezer jam using Altom Brown’s recipe*. I love how easy and fresh-tasting freezer jam is — I hope I can keep making it all summer long, as each new fruit come into season! The freezerContinue reading “Ripe strawberries”
Games with Thrones
Amelia has started building herself more and more elaborate, throne-like seats (the better to rule her kingdom from, my dear). When Baxter asked her to read him a book this morning, I walked back in the room to see her leading a one-person story hour. To his credit, he lasted about 10 minutes. Continue reading “Games with Thrones”
It was a Cinderella morning
When I got out of bed this morning, I found Amelia carefully brushing Baxter’s hair around his tiara/headband. She had already helped him put on two tutus under his Cinderella dress (and over his pajamas). He was very pleased the results.
Who’s 6 years old and loves her new hair cut?
This kid!
Rainy day strawberry
Back to sleep
Baxter wakes up and groggily stumbles out of his room, saying “Mom, the green light* is on! I’m going to go back to sleep.” Me: “You’re going back to sleep?” Baxter: “Yes, right here on dis chair.” He turned on the lights between curling up on the armchair, the way you do. His “sleep” didn’tContinue reading “Back to sleep”
The Thing With The Stuff 