Mardi Gras masks! You'll have to pardon this post, because I am ending up the week with a cold and three sick little boys. (The littlest boy was sick over the course of the week, but was he sick with what we've all come down with today or with the last mild cold that passed thr...

Week 6: Valentines, Valentines, Valentines:   Katydid, wearing her rose-colored glasses (they actually are rose-tinted, to help with her headaches) looks very Valentine-ish, doesn't she?   Most of the Valentines this year involved large amounts of glitter.  I think this is Pip&...

Weeks 3, 4, and 5 are being lumped together as cabin fever weeks.  I think we did actually do something, and I have a few pictures to prove it, but mainly winter insanity took over. This week (week 5) ended up a little better than I expected, after a disastrous Monday on which I in...

Oh, I've lost count.  But I'm going to do a week in review post anyway, just to bring us up to date before we stop for Christmas.  We'll take off until after January 1st -- baking, frantically cleaning, and catching up on a few really badly timed pediatric check-ups.  T...

    Yes, there is an Advent wreath hidden somewhere in this picture. (I also just noticed: Pip's cardboard castle is positioned just right to make it seem like something is nesting in an open woodstove. I feel like I'm posting a version of hidden pictures!) But, obviously, ...

The Reggio Emilia approach to preschool education is one of the major drivers behind Google's pending 70 percent hike in the company's daycare prices for its employees. What's Reggio Emilia? Wikipedia for once has a darned good writeup: "Teachers in Reggio Emilia assert the importance of being confu...

In het rijtje TopBiebs van Nederland, bibliotheken die het concept openbare bibliotheek opnieuw aan het uitvinden zijn en die internationale uitstraling hebben hoort ook de Bibliotheek van de 100 Talenten thuis. Jeugdbibliotheken die de klant centraal weten te zetten. Hoewel er met het concept in me...