The Longest Shortest Time

You’re Crafty; Reward Yourself

By now you may have already checked out our Kickstarter page, with all of the fun rewards I have concocted especially with *you* in mind. Let us take a moment to look more closely at one of those rewards, donated by the talented and entrepreneurial Liesl Gibson. In Episode 3, you learned about how Liesl’s […]

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We Can’t Stop: Watercolor Markers Edition

Art time is usually a respite in our house. A time when Sasha is happily concentrating, and not screaming. Unless, of course, the supplies are not working like they should. Take, for example, dry markers. I’m finding that most markers get dull and dry much more quickly that I’d like them to. I asked my […]

Secrets Within

Three boxes arrived today, full of contents for LST’s big announcement, coming on September 9th.

Split Personality

So many things have been happening lately that I’ve wanted to post about but I’ve been sidetracked by preparations for LST’s big announcement, coming on September 9th. I will try to sneak a few posts in before then, but in the meantime, something happened yesterday that I just had to share. Sasha has gotten very […]

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We Can’t Stop: Art Edition

Don’t know what to do with your kids now that they’re home for the summer? My art teacher mom shares her top three art materials for toddlers.

The Song You Made Up

*NOTE: Please read this one to the end, where I make my first ever request for YOUR audio! —HF ***** For awhile there, Sasha did nothing but scream when she was with me. If other people were around, she would giggle and play tag and show off her (yikes!) tricks on the monkey bars. And […]

We Can’t Stop: Manners Edition

Recently Sasha has been stuck on one book, one song, and one video. So I figured it was time for another We Can’t Stop post. Because we literally can’t stop. The Book Many of you may be familiar with James Marshall’s George and Martha, the lovable hippos with a loyal and realistically complex friendship. One […]

In Andromeda

This is probably going to be a controversial topic with LST-ers, but for any of you who have ever felt betrayed by the natural/home birth movement, you must, must, must read Brenda Shaughnessy’s poem “Our Andromeda” from her book of the same title. I talked in episode 4 about feeling like I had failed at […]