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Once upon a time there was a handsome prince named Will. He married a beautiful baby sister named Ellie. The end. Will telling Ellie “a bedtime story”

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I was upstairs, Ellie and Will were playing downstairs.  And then I heard “MOM!  ELLIE’S PEEING ON THE POTTY!  YOU GOTTA COME SEE THIS!”  By the time I got downstairs she had hopped off and was tossing a ceremonial bit of toilet paper into the potty before flushing.  She’s never gotten up on the toilet […]

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giant children at play dollhouse pillow

I’m sitting at the kitchen table looking out at a foggy misty CHILLY morning, with Kindergarten Orientation on the calendar for today and wondering where the summer went!  It’s making me feel like I need to dash off and finish my ‘late summer’ quilt before fall is here in earnest!  But for those cozy winter […]

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renaissance fair quilt — my castle peeps ‘just in time’ finish

I missed last week’s Quiet Book Sew Along post.  Too much wedding editing, not enough sewing.  Oh well–there’s always another Friday just around the corner. This weekend marked that last weekend of the Renaissance Fair here in Colorado.  We managed to get in just under the wire–going the very last day.  Which is also how […]

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seeing the light

We are on day 7 of the potty training journey, and we just had our first 100% successful experience.  Ellie was downstairs with Will watching The Little Mermaid.  I heard her come up the stairs calling for me, saying ‘ut oh’ and signing potty once she saw me.  This is not unusual—from the second day […]

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Today I bought Will a $0.25 bucket at a garage sale (he’d just been saying this morning that he needed a bigger bucket for sand castle building) and a $1.50 shovel on clearance at Target, and he has spent the last 3 hours in the sandbox.  That works out to a babysitter at $0.58 an […]

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