MamaKate's Profile

Lots of great Christmas movies. I'd add Beautiful Girls to this list - not exactly a Christmas movie but another one I enjoy watching this time of year!

I think it depends on the baby and the job. I've had a nanny, worked from home (with and without a nanny present) and have brought my baby to work. My conclusion - each scenario has challenges as well as advantages!

I'd suggest you go ahead and give it a try but be prepared to be flexible. In my experience, employers who are flexible enough to let you consider these types of options are also flexible enough to work with you when you need to try something else, as long as you're open with them about it.

Love the colors but find the room just doesn't look quite right to me... too short curtains, too small rug... Beautiful start but needs some polishing.

Love Klimt - I have some prints in my bedroom... this one is perfect for a nursery

uh oh... what's wrong with the hose water? BPA? Guess I accidentally created another generation of hose drinkers.

I love the idea of "office hours" as well as a white board for students to leave messages. I think students would understand both.

This is a GREAT writing center! Many of these items are things I had in my classroom as a preschool teacher and I would have loved this gorgeous chicken coop to store them all.
The wooden blocks are from "Handwriting without Tears" a commercial handwriting curriculum used in many schools. The rolodex is also a pretty standard preschool writing center item. It can be used to store letters, words starting with those letters, or simply as "environmental print" depending on student ages!

Am I the only one who thinks it looks ugly, wide and unwieldy in the "single" configuration!?

I'm a former classroom teacher and did this each year with our unit blocks using contact paper.
We started the year by adding each students' family picture to the blocks. When we studied our homes and learned addresses, a photo of each child's home was added to the set. Later in the year, when studying community we took photos of local landmarks, businesses, etc (including parks, playgrounds, the local fire station, etc) and added those. By the end of the school year our unit block set was personalized - students loved incorporating familiar people and places into their play.
In a classroom, using contact paper allowed me to start fresh each school year but I love the idea of using modpodge for a similar, but more permanent, project at home.