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On this rainy January morning I’ve got a few cool things to share. First off, I loved reading about your first and seconds yesterday. All of your comments made me smile.
In case you haven’t noticed, The Sleepy Time Gal has been under a bit of construction. There are some changes coming that I’m hoping will make this space easier to navigate and more informative. So stay tuned for that coming really soon. I’m pretty excited about it!
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What is it about that second child?
I’ve talked to many women about their seconds and there is something so drastically different from their firsts; a free-spirited soul who marches to the beat of their own drum.
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This image overwhelms me.
Letter after letter of the deepest, most real and honest gratitude for what so many of you did for the children of Ishinomaki, Japan.
The children that you helped to clothe and feed and cheer up wrote us many thank you’s.
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I wish this were mine.
But like many of my kids’ creative projects, they are made for their friends. (I’m happy this one was for a little friend named Will who just turned four.)
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Happy new week to you! We had our first real snow of the winter (except for that bizarre snow we received in October) this weekend. It is amazing how life turns out because I got to be the one to take the four girls out and eat snow and shovel while Bobby was ill. I got to see Ainsleigh and Annabelle old enough now to really love the snow. I got to sled down our backyard hill and run the sled back up to the top.
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Where I used to spend much time in the basement sewing before Christmas, now I’ve been spending a considerable amount of time in the kitchen. It has just happened naturally and slowly. Now the girls gather chairs around the island to help throughout the day instead of just at dinner. It has been a nice change from sewing, although the basement has been calling me. Not for sewing but for major reform and order. The basement collects all of the things that I no longer want upstairs in our living space. Our pathetic habit is to open the basement door and drop anything down the steps that belongs downstairs: dress up clothes, dolls, sleeping bags, boxes of plastic baggies for storage, etc., etc. I’m sure right now you are envisioning what the bottom of the steps looks like on most days.
You’re probably right.
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Ah, the living room. Once a place of no functional space now brightens my day. This corner of our room (where our Christmas tree stood) has always baffled me. Our large painting has always hung here, leaving little options for filling up the space around it: maybe a plant or a chair. It has always frustrated me because there are so many things that should be in this room. Like blocks and my girls’ art and my books and random projects we like to pick up and work on without storing in some other room, etc. This is our family space where we begin our morning and Bobby and I end our night. Shouldn’t this room work better for us??!!
Two enormous changes. One, moving my big blue painting and two, bringing a bookcase downstairs.
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It seems like all we do is prepare food, eat food, and clean up from eating food with a family of six. Do you ever feel that way sometimes? We recently started a chart of “dinner helpers” who are responsible for, well, helping with dinner. Caroline, 6, and Johanna, 4, are the only two on the schedule. They usually help in the kitchen and set the table. Depending on which child is the helper for the night, I place emphasis on different things. Johanna loves standing on a chair and working alongside me and Caroline loves creating elaborate centerpieces and making name cards. It has thankfully become a real help and quite enjoyable for the two of them.
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Together we sent over 700 boxes of relief supplies to 3 Japanese cities that were devastated by the 2010 tsunami. Click here to read our story.
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