Tonight I babysat for my adorable 3-year-old nephew Benji while my sister went to a work event. He was very good! We read 3 books, and ate dinner (mostly) neatly and without major mishap ("I dropped a piece of pasta on the floor but if it goes on the floor that's okay because we can clean it up, Auntie Em!" he said, repeating what I'd told him 5 ( Read more... )

Hello friends, countrymen and women, and random people on the street! It's time for another edition of Adventures with Emily's Eyes! (Woo?) I should have posted this already, but got behind due to the frenzy of the holiday season (even figuring out Christmas travel plans is a big multi-part series of phone calls and emails and more phone calls in ( Read more... )