CaliinFrance's Profile

beautiful home!
as a parent of almost two year old twins, im impressed at how unbaby proofed your living room is, my kids were never ones for redirection :)

They weren't officially birth trees but my parents planted a yard full of fruit trees the year I was born. Great to eat the fruit growing up.
But now almost all of them have died (I'm in my 30s, pretty normal life for this kind of tree in this location). Kind of sad but kind of funny.

any tips for getting this stuff to stick to the walls?
maybe the climate is just too dry here but it keeps peeling off (and these are smooth walls)

Thank you for this!!! You just saved me $$$ as I was thinking I had to replace at least one interior door (i had tightened the screws and it almost didnt even close anymore without a shove). Tried this today and voila, all fixed!!

my hack so far was just to cut off a few inches from the legs. makes it the perfect height for toddlers and way cheaper than the fancy Montessori tables

I used blurb for my twins first year, turned out great, and we ordered a ton of copies (one for us, one for each of the kids to have when they grow up, for the grandparents, etc). Everyone loved them!

I had picked my favorites from each month as the year went on which made it a lot easier to make the book.

jmh26, i dont know if my kids are just more interested in getting into things, or if I have a different definition of playing with them, but before we baby proofed (as in, made it so most of the things that were in reach were ok for them to be playing with), spending time with them consisted of basically telling them to stop doing what they were doing every 10 seconds (big draws included the heating vent on the floor which came up, the blinds, the books that we didnt want ruined, the tv, etc etc)

I suppose we could have kept the coffee table, but ours was a pedestal and I was afraid of one of them pulling it down on the other (it was heavy marble).

now that they are almost a year and a half we see some signs of being able to tell them that things are off limits and have them listen and respect this while we are sitting there, but until this point it was redirection with them going right back to it. rinse. repeat.

ha, fakha, i tried the same thing in the same city, I called a few of the stores! the people at H&M must have been so confused yesterday :)

(and i think this rocks, i always wear a helmet for safety, but i love the feel of the wind in your hair when biking. my only concern would be that it would make you even hotter wearing some bulky thing around your neck)

This was very timely, I happened to find one of these in a local home discount shop on sale for $50! I took it home knowing it was a good choice :)