yoked

Wow, Sunday sure rolled around fast! We've had a really rough week - poor Madrigal finally succumbed to the nasty, nasty cold that Andrew and I have been struggling with for two weeks now. Add in teething and being on the verge of walking (seriously, she's already taken a few independent steps!), and we're not…

sundays are for blogging?

I've got to come up with some sort of rhythm and routine for writing here, or else I'm just never going to do it now that I'm back to teaching and am just so busy all of the time. So I'm thinking I'll try to post on Sundays. You might remember that I previously declared…

showing off…

...my progress on Maddy's mini-Vahtralehed, and my new haircut, too: I really need to come up with a better name than "mini-Vahtralehed" for this cardigan. I should look up what "sapling" is in Estonian - that'd probably be a cute name for a diminutive version of Vahtralehed, yeah? Knitting a baby sweater at 6sts/inch turns…

transitions

Yesterday was Madrigal's first day of "school": It isn't really school, of course, but she is spending 3 hours every morning in the Nido community at our local Montessori school. It is SUCH a great environment for her, and she seems to be handling the transition as well as we could possibly have expected. Like…