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Here is a thread on a few of the nutrition, food prep, and supplementation guidelines that I followed during my first pregnancy.
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My daughter and I have a new favorite pastime we call “flower hunting.” My 3yo gathers as many different flower varieties as she can find, and then we bring them home to look up and press.
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My best cleaning advice is to have a low tolerance for ugly objects. Messes are much less offensive when the things one uses daily are attractive, or at least neutral.
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My 4yo is continually serenading us with the little songs and poems that she composes: . “In the rays of the sun, the floor doth shine”
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For some reason, unfitted kitchens have never been popular in the states. Furniture can bring life to a space in a way that built-ins rarely do.
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Kitchens have become sterile, colorless, empty places. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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The brilliant English decorator and collector, Robert Kime, has sadly passed. His interiors were exquisite.
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My dad made this for his granddaughter. Each door has a unique latch and opens to something interesting (a mirror, a sheet of liquid crystal, a lens, a photo of grandpa, etc.)
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To arise early to see as much of the lord's daylight as is given to us.
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I refuse to give my daughters Tylenol for teething pain. My youngest recently had four molars erupt in the span of a week and so I decided to start freezing melon sticks. Works like a charm!
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Gathering inspiration for my daughter’s bedroom. Childrens’ rooms are so often overstimulating and antithetical to rest.
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There are many charming children’s toys, but toddlers really just need blocks and books.
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If you’re pregnant, eat eggs. Chicken eggs, salmon eggs, duck eggs, whatever eggs you can get your hands on.
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25lbs of apricots from great-grandmother’s tree. What shall we make?
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My husband and I have a loose rule to only keep around children’s books written 60+ yrs ago. Notable exceptions to this are any books illustrated by Komako Sakai.
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Husband has been out of town for the week and all decorum has long since gone. The girls and I are now eating steak and sauerkraut like animals.
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My 20mo daughter will pour herself a glass of olive oil and drink it like apple juice. Strong instincts.
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My 3yo’s “morning card” system 🧵. “The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days; while she who lets their habits take care of themselves has a weary life of endless friction with the children.”— Charlotte Mason, 1886
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If there was a way to keep young people (particularly women) from owning pets before they have children, I’d imagine it would significantly boost fertility rates. Many women can satisfy their nurturing instinct just enough to postpone/forgo children by pouring their affections
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2yo daughter has strong instincts when putting an outfit together.
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“The chief function of the child—his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life—is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses; that he has an insatiable appetite for knowledge got in this way;”
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Pressing late spring flowers
My daughter and I have a new favorite pastime we call “flower hunting.” My 3yo gathers as many different flower varieties as she can find, and then we bring them home to look up and press.
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My childhood best friend was a beautiful girl from a large, well-respected European family. She went on to get an Ivy education and a job in tech. She recently got married and plans to never have children. Instead, she says she’ll spend her life fostering pit bulls on “death.
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I loved sleeping in my built-in bed as a child. I’m looking forward to designing and building one for my daughter.
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The most reliable way to get a little babe to bed is freezing temps.
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Me: What do you think of Japan? . 5yo: It’s like being inside a dream!
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I promised my daughter that we’d have a picnic, but it turned out to be a rainy day.
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The babies build a sand castle while the men build a goose palace.
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I suspect many picky eaters exist because parents underestimate their children’s palettes. When my daughters dislike something, it's usually because it's too bland. If my girls tire of eggs, I add fish sauce or some novel ingredient. This always seems to work.
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Motherhood has made my life more beautiful. Every small thing I put my hand to feels profound in a way that it never had before.
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Smelling flowers, picking blueberries, and clomping in mud puddles at a local farm.
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Back when I was heavily pregnant and dressed up as a well-fed snake.
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Last Summer, my daughter insisted on dressing like Sal (from McCloskey’s classic book “Blueberries for Sal”) and going berry picking at every possible opportunity. We amassed quite a stockpile of jam and frozen blueberries.
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My 3yo chooses her clothing each morning. Seeing the outfits she puts together is one of my great pleasures.
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I have a soft spot for trees that are a little spindly and wispy. They’re reminiscent of German feather trees.
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3 yo’s culinary invention:. Sardine, cottage cheese, and sauerkraut on a slice of cucumber
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“Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out—‘Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?’ and so on.”. — Charlotte Mason, Home Education, 1886
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Probably, the single most valuable addition one can make to their children's nutritional health is to insist that they eat eggs every day. Choline, protein, good fat, and just about every other micronutrient are found in eggs. Breakfast is the one meal of the day that I make by
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My daughter rejoicing in the first tomato of the season. I asked her if I could have a taste and she brought me this humble offering.
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“An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.” . — Charlotte Mason, Home Education, 1886
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After many weeks of debilitating nausea, I'm grateful to be out of bed, semi-functional again, and pregnant with another baby girl.
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I’m very lucky to live in a house where the bathrooms have been mostly left alone for the last hundred years.
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What makes a kitchen enticing is a feeling of abundance. It’s viscerally satisfying to see sourdough starter bubbling over, beans soaking in deep purple water, effervescent vegetables in the early stages of fermentation, and babies sticking their little fingers into all.
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I prefer bouquets to either be carefully composed of a single variety or to be childishly arranged using every flower in bloom.
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Tfw when the floor joists in your home are from the late 1700’s and the bark is still intact.
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As an adult, I’ve always just defaulted to white bedding. It’s a shame, given how much warmth a beautiful textile brings to a room.
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One of the nicest things to do in a kitchen is to keep produce in sight rather than tucking it away in the pantry.
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To arise early to see as much of the lord's daylight as is given to us.
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Starting a new Christmas puddding tradition with the Sarris’. We missed Stir-up Sunday by a couple of weeks, but better late than never.
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