We’ve had problems with getting the baby (now 10 months) to sleep properly during the day, and when she also started waking more often during the night I decided I had to figure out an answer. Our first child slept readily, took schedule variations in his stride, and so it was a big shock when [...]
Apparently there’s a group of nuns in hiding after their knitting business went bust; they are even said to have mortgaged a monastery to finance their efforts to keep up with the latest fashions in knitting design. More on the story in Nuns on the Run (link from whip up).
On first reading it’s funny; [...]
I was chatting with Eve about crochet patterns that are worth making, and found out she didn’t know about Priscilla’s crochet. Priscilla’s website was off the air for what seemed like ages (maybe a year?) but is now back again; it has lots of crochet patterns for afghans and bookmarks and potholders and that sort [...]
The book club I belong to decided to read Queen Noor’s “Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life”, her autobiography, and this is a summary of our review. Part of the reason we chose this book was in the hopes that it would be a more accessible way of learning more about that part [...]
When Eve was visiting a few weeks ago, she said that someone was touring grocery stores in her area teaching people how to eat kiwifruit efficiently. I expressed some scepticism that this was necessary; she assured me it was. For fun I decided to do a photo shoot of how to cut and eat kiwifruit [...]
There seem to be as many philosophies about how to bring up children successfully as there are parents, which fact you tend not to discover until you are a parent yourself. And then you have to hope that your philosophy is reasonably congruent with that of the other parent and/or caregivers in your child’s [...]
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