Summer Vacation Part 2: Routines & Rhythms

By: Christina Sbarro

Hi. I’ve been thinking a lot about how I’m going to survive this summer and how my kids are going to survive this summer and how, optimally, hopefully, we’ll do it with a bit of grace and perhaps even some pizazz. So. To that end I’ve been trying to tackle the work-play rhythm I mentioned [...]

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Summer Vacation Part 1: Staring Down Boredom and Making Routines That Work

By: Erin Oltmanns

We survived the first week of summer vacation (barely.) It was all about getting dirty and figuring out routines and discovering ways to involve my 5 year old and 15 month old in the routines of work and play around our house.

We made popsicles (in paper cups without sticks—need to pick some of those up!) [...]

The adventure of living creatively

By: Christina Sbarro

Hi! I’m thrilled to be joining Today’s Mama Boston. I live close enough to Boston to make it legit, but really, I live at the end of a long dirt road in Vermont with my husband T. and our two little guys, Bean and Sprout.*
(* their blogosphere monikers.)
Bean is five, rides his dirt bike like [...]

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