Thing 2 HoneyComb Cowl Erato’s “Call Your Girlfriend” Thing 2 and Thing 3 Thing 4 and Daddy 12 hrs away from us Thing 4 enjoying the snow Thing 2 making his Troll Face My SiL’s fab decorations (she makes it look so easy!) Da Table Da Kids Post-food (you know the drill) Giving Thanks Da Goofy Kids Three Artists all in a row… Requisite smoking of holiday cigars Happy Sneak...

I don’t often post about such things, but this was such a well-done look at what can happen to gifted kids I thought I should share (with the caveat that I think the term “gifted” is rather ironic since it often feels like a curse). If you know kids like this, the “You may not need a hug but _I_ do” line may be the best thing going.Existential Depression in Gifted Children | The Unbounded Spirit. note: I’ve...

How we spent the week… 2 4 a vanilla shawl pattern I’m working on How Thing 1 spent his Saturday morning I evidently need to find a way to get more Black Cow Coffee shirts from Croton-on-Hudson So, the shawl DEFINITELY needed a long soak (in SOAK) Vanilla+ sock Eye of Partridge heel flap Thing 1 snuggling with Mittens vanilla+ sock pattern I’m working on Now that I’m watching “Breaking Bad” iI get some of the...

My younger son has found himself enamored of Shakespeare (Midsummer is a fave, followed closely by Branaugh’s Henry V). A high point of his ninth birthday was meeting Ehren Ziegler of ChopBard podcast during the Birthday Weekend Trip To NYC Blowout. But last week he woke up, looked out the window at the fresh (surprise!) snow and said, “It makes me feel all Shakespeare-y.” Well what else is a former English teacher to do? I...

Having spent every day since December 18th, 2012 on my back in bed (at least for some significant portion of each day) due to flu–>pneumonia, I thought it might be prudent of me to share what I learned with you since the flu seems to be doing the tango with the Eastern Seaboard. Please feel free–feel encouraged, actually—to share your own insights, tips, and tricks below. The more useful this page becomes… well… the...