This blog is on hiatus while Doug, Carter, and I are spending a year traveling around the world! You can follow our adventures on our travel blog here. :-)
I think it's probably not a coincidence that I've had this burst of reorganization energy at the same time as I've been getting myself healthy. I have so much more energy than I did a few months ago, and it makes me want to get things done
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Carter will be 4 in January, something that kind of blows my mind. He's very much a little boy now, not remotely a baby or a toddler. And so we've been slowly taking down some of the barriers we put up when he became mobile
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I have totally neglected this journal for a long time. I'm mostly on FB, and that's been really dissatisfying for me for a while now. I feel like I need a space to write about things I'm thinking about (parenting-wise and otherwise) in more than a few hundred characters, so I'm going to try to use this again.
This is a recipe I've used for years, one I sort of made up and sort of copied from somewhere else. It works for almost every kind of veggie, and it's pretty straightforward to use. I made it yesterday with pumpkin, and on a whim took a bunch of pictures of the process. I thought I would post them here. :-)
In case you've wondered where I've been the last few weeks (or even if you haven't!), we just got back from a trip to Chile and Argentina. If you're interested, I kept a detailed account of the trip (with lots of photos) on Carter's blog here.
I've been mulling over a series of posts on my parenting philosophy, and now that my summer school class is over, I think I'll start. This is partly for record-keeping and partly for discussion. I want to remember what I was thinking at this point in my parenting experience when I look back
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