Lina on November 4th, 2009

We stumbled across The Magic Tree House series when we got a single CD of the author reading “Dingos at Dinnertime” and listened to it, oh, maybe 800 times in the car.  The kids love it and Grandma was kind enough to send us 8 entire stories on CD, plus the first four books.  They [...]

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Lina on April 20th, 2009

I finally watched Ricki Lake’s documentary “The Business of Being Born” and I wanted to write about it, even though its been out for almost a year now.  I heard a lot about this movie when it first came out and I was excited that it is more accessible to the mainstream than a lot [...]

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Lina on November 30th, 2008

I’ve read a lot of blogs lately that are loving the book “Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day” and since we are always looking for good, easy bread so we had to check it out.  This is the bread I made for dinner tonight and there is dough for 3 more loaves in my [...]

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Lina on August 29th, 2008

Someone on my mom-listserv recommended this site and I wanted to pass it along – Weelicious is a mom-foodblog devoted to easy, organic baby and toddler food.  Great looking recipes that are straightforward to make.  The author’s son is still under 2 so the recipes are focused in that age-range but my kids (and my [...]

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Lina on August 5th, 2008

In case you didn’t receive 3 copies of this book for your babyshower, I just wanted to remind you how good of a book Goodnight Moon is for kids. My 3 year old and my 18 month old still love it and its usually at the top of the heap for books before bedtime. [...]

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