A Mindful Life

I’m spreading the word about a local diaper drive. If you live in the Bay Area, take note! Give Cheeks a Chance! Kickoff @ Baby Buzz Café 09.09.09 from 3 – 6 PM Our Goal Help us collect over 3000 diapers on September 9th so that we can break our single-day San Jose collection record! [...]

Today we took Claire to the Children’s Discovery Museum, and she had a grand time. She played with water, climbed ramps, painted, crawled, turned things over, looked in mirrors, climbed inside boxes, danced, painted her face, and generally filled her brain through all her senses. We bought a family membership, and we’ll be going frequently [...]

This video by RadioLab moved me deeply. If you have four minutes to spare, do watch it. And if the video doesn’t work, click this link to see it.

Since her birth, Husband has sung a Beatles a love song to Claire. He sings it at diaper changes, during baths, and just because. Tonight as she bathed and I sat in the living room, I heard her singing the chorus along with him, and she was even on key sometimes! Falling, yes I am [...]

Our first overnight trip was a success, although we decided to make it only one night instead of two. Claire napped on the way to Monterey, so that when we arrived we could play. We drove to Pacific Grove and ate lunch at Lover’s Point Park. There we encountered a huge clan of unusually tame, [...]

Claire is still coughing and sneezing some, but she is restless and cheerful, so we are heading out on our little trip. I hope we’ve packed well enough: clothes, books (for us all), snacks, stuffed animals. I wonder if she’ll sleep in the pack-and-play, which she hated to even be in to play? I wonder [...]

Husband is taking time off work. We were planning to go to Monterey for a couple nights — our first away from home with Claire — this week. Except Claire has a nasty cold with a cough, sneezes, and so forth. Also, the water hose to our refrigerator broke and leaked everywhere last night. Though [...]

Earlier this summer I searched for recommendations, and I got some. I also recently heard about some sites that offer good info. This site offers some interesting reviews and recommendations of fiction, non-fiction, kid lit, and memoir: Five Minutes for Books. Then there’s Good Reading: A Guide for Serious Readers (I’m thinking my father would [...]

There comes a point in a knitter’s life that one must move beyond scarves and hats. I decided that the next reasonable step — one which would likely result in a completed project — is to knit socks. Claire and I went to our local yarn store today, and I acquired the needles and yarn. [...]