1. If you want your teenager to hang out in the living room with the family, let her be 100% responsible for her own laundry and the state of her bedroom. It will become unlivable in no time which leads to the wonderful sight of a long lanky teenager doing homework on the living room floor by the fire!!
2. If you'd like to encourage your 4 year old to write but can't seem to get his butt in a chair for more than 5 seconds, get Dr. Seuss's "My Book About Me". (pictured is Mac, Emmett, Silas and Matt's book from 1973!)
This book is pure genius and has Silas walking all over the place counting forks and steps to the mailbox. He loved writing his address (with help) and his phone number and this book has him collecting neighborhood autographs (mailman, pizza delivery, librarian etc)... and ALL without having to SIT. This will definitely be a kindergarten challenge for our Dear Morgan!
(PS A little redheaded girl we love will be getting her "My Book About Me" for her 4th b-day! Good thing she can't read this yet!)
3. Two people going Vegan in the house (Matt
indefinitely and Mac for one month after she read that going Vegan is the most impactful thing you can do to change the world!)...has really really reduced the amount of cheese and milk consumed by our household! This week we used more almond, rice and soy milk and only ONE 1/2 gallon of milk. I feel good about this.
4. Despite all the yummy things to eat around here, everyone's favorite snack is cereal. Specifically, O's with blueberries and bananas. Me too, actually.
5. Painting is really really fun and absorbing even if its a wee bit embarrassing showing everybody how unsubtle the symbolism is....or clumsy the techniques....and a little bit "uncool".
I love it anyway. I only wish it was as fun to paint on small canvases as it is on big ones!
I think I might have to paint, take a picture, gesso over it and on and on....because who has room for (or wants to look at...) a 48'' x 72" painting of The Pregnant Hippy Muse of Pottery ?!! Looks a bit like it should hang in Lady of the Lake! :)
6. I love Bill Murray and I really really love the poem "I dwell in possibility" that he reads to the guys working on the Poet House in NYC.
2. If you'd like to encourage your 4 year old to write but can't seem to get his butt in a chair for more than 5 seconds, get Dr. Seuss's "My Book About Me". (pictured is Mac, Emmett, Silas and Matt's book from 1973!)
This book is pure genius and has Silas walking all over the place counting forks and steps to the mailbox. He loved writing his address (with help) and his phone number and this book has him collecting neighborhood autographs (mailman, pizza delivery, librarian etc)... and ALL without having to SIT. This will definitely be a kindergarten challenge for our Dear Morgan!(PS A little redheaded girl we love will be getting her "My Book About Me" for her 4th b-day! Good thing she can't read this yet!)
3. Two people going Vegan in the house (Matt
indefinitely and Mac for one month after she read that going Vegan is the most impactful thing you can do to change the world!)...has really really reduced the amount of cheese and milk consumed by our household! This week we used more almond, rice and soy milk and only ONE 1/2 gallon of milk. I feel good about this.
4. Despite all the yummy things to eat around here, everyone's favorite snack is cereal. Specifically, O's with blueberries and bananas. Me too, actually.
5. Painting is really really fun and absorbing even if its a wee bit embarrassing showing everybody how unsubtle the symbolism is....or clumsy the techniques....and a little bit "uncool".
I love it anyway. I only wish it was as fun to paint on small canvases as it is on big ones!
I think I might have to paint, take a picture, gesso over it and on and on....because who has room for (or wants to look at...) a 48'' x 72" painting of The Pregnant Hippy Muse of Pottery ?!! Looks a bit like it should hang in Lady of the Lake! :)6. I love Bill Murray and I really really love the poem "I dwell in possibility" that he reads to the guys working on the Poet House in NYC.
7. 
I still can't keep clothes on this boy!
I still can't keep clothes on this boy!
This book is interesting and has a lot in it that
