I have a free set of instructions for building your own cardboard doll furniture on my blog - just go to http://fortytworoads.blogspot.com and look f...

ok, not to be a pedant or anything, but that has got to be the funniest dangling modifier i've ever seen. was john really handcrafted from hardwoods? that's pretty impressive!

i love this store!

oh i would love this!

i think it just depends on the state of it. we give second-hand books all the time (and i mean new titles, not old editions), and as long as they aren't torn up or dirty, who cares? i do have a few...

oh, those colors are really delicious. i want the orange one!

oh pretty please pick me!

I'd cut up all the veggies we throw into our almost daily lunch quesadillas! Those are really gorgeous cutting boards.

i'd love some of these! to give away... nah, to keep.

there's no way i would have taken the test without my husband there! i don't really get the surprise announcement aspect of this - unless this is not a planned pregnancy i guess. anyway, at my hous...

We names our daughter Lara. Unique enough that there won't be seven of them in her grade, but normal enough not to provoke double-takes. She will face the Lara/Laura issue, but I've been dealing wi...

A tip for the hard peaches - put a couple of apples in a brown paper bag, and then put the peaches on top of them and roll the top of the bag closed. The apples release a ripening gas (or you know,...

Babies R Us has plenty of soft cotton solid color crib sheets (all of mine are from there). Go to the mattress section, not the wall-o-theme-prints. They have very soft cotton green solid color one...

Wow, that's a pretty obnoxious party the NYT wrote about! It's pretty bad to expect people to bring presents to anything in the first place (you're inviting them for their company, not their wallet...

i do laundry on mondays. every monday is cleanup day, where the apartment gets a floor to ceiling cleaning. doing it once a week means it only takes a hour, since it doesn't get that dirty to begin...

I just got a Waldoft doll for my 20 month old daughter from the Peruvian Q'ewar project (http://qewar.com/), an organization creating economic empowerment for Andean women. The doll is really extra...

There's a basic divide in Lara's nursery - everything she has that we've bought her is totally green. Almost everything else - presents, hand-me-downs, etc. - is pretty much not green. Eh, I think ...

this seems well-meaning, but why does the article pretend that there is an either/or at work - "either you do nvc or you hit your children until they suffer". um, yeah, clearly there is a pretty wi...

"never stop watching yourself from the side" I always think of that whenever I see self-importance or just a general lack of self-awareness. The ability to see yourself from the outsi...

just wanted to comment that on amazon, the book is $14.