- pretty please, go favorite our home on the apartment therapy small cool contest for tiny homes. we’re in second place!
- sarah was the contributor this week. make sure to read her post on raising sweet sylvia.
- i’m a contributor over at mom.me. check out my first post on songs kids love.
- love and motherhood through food. by stephanie bonin.
- men in labor. hilarious.
- omg. these beautiful photos of tippi degre, who grew up in africa, surrounded by wild animals.
- put the spun opening at the DAM on your list of things to do. i’ll have a post soon on my experience at the media preview.
thinking of how to include your little one in some last minute mother’s day love? buy watercolor paints ($4.50 at your local art supply store), grab some heavier weight paper, and get to painting! ramona and max had a riot pointing to the color on the palette that they wanted to use (and i would speak it back to them), and then taking their turns w the brush and making their mark. i’ll cut the paper in quarters and write a note on the back to send to the mama’s in our life. easy peasy lemon squeezy. and the kids got to flex their artistic muscles AND learn color names in the process.
elsewhere on the interwebs (i gotta lot for you this week!):
- remember my post on the korean bath house? you’ve GOTTA read sarah’s take on it. hilarious!
- if you haven’t yet shopped at everlane then you must get on it. now.
- new sponsor on the blog: girl in the pjs. one of my faves!
- another great idea for a mama’s day gift.
- a complete and concise list of denver free days.
- five tips for eating out with a toddler.
- the Scared is scared. an adorable video about a story told by a six-year-old.
- i seriously have the coolest friends: my dear friend, christian, a woodworker in nashville.
- lots of new babies (either arrived or soon!) in my family and community. a poem i’ll be passing onto every mother: the only thing you remember is your life, by pablo neruda that speaks so perfectly to the experience.
- elizabeth smart on abstinence-only sex education.
happy weekend! i’m working at the populist this weekend and then we have a superbowl sunday party at our friends’ house (we plan on queso and, seriously, a KFC game day bucket or two [must be all those ads on hulu that have convinced me this is a good idea]). i’m looking forward to an impromptu denver blogger meetup next week with the lovely ladies of the following blogs: the reverie blog, you are my fave, and then we saved, the petrichor, and the proper pinwheel. my guess is we’ll have too much fun.
elsewhere on the interweb:
- i love this cute new tumblr of fashionable babies.
- here’s a good source to make YOUR baby more fashionable.
- a cute valentine’s day idea: make someone happy letter via oh joy!
- i’d like to write more down on paper and not just on this blog. here’s a good source for journals.
- my brother always sends me the best articles: can everyone be smart at everything?
- and my friend, ashley, often runs these sorts of articles by me: train a parent, spare a child.
- if you’re only going to read one article from this week’s list of links, read this one: suffering fools gladly.
- i always got in trouble in school for not acting demure enough or polite enough but still i’m glad my parents’ end game wasn’t to make sure i was perfectly obedient. is raising obedient children the best thing?
- we’ve all heard the incredibly moving fresh air interview with maurice sendak. now you can see it: illustrated excerpts from the new york times magazine.
- breastfed babies more temperamental? i’d have to say this article rings a bit true with my experience with ramona. but i don’t think it gives enough credit to genes and innate personalities.
- i’m particularly proud of this one: denver’s westword gives a nod to the populist and its neighborhood as the number one culinary story of 2012 in denver.
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