Do you have memories of Polaroid photos when you were a kid? My father in law tells stories of coming home from work when Simon was a baby, and my mother-in-law had a series of Polaroids laid out showing the events of the day. Isn’t that sweet? As a little girl in the early 1980s, […]

Stream of consciousness as we enter another week. September is in our sight line, and frankly I’m happy to bid August au revoir. I was chatting with a fellow mom friend yesterday about what a bum month August is: it’s so hot, you’re over summer, you’re ready for the kids to start school already, and you’re probably […]

Ahhh carpool. With back to school that means it’s back to carpool twice a day for us over here. Hours of our day can be spent riding hither and yon to All The Things. I’ve pretty much decided that a car with kids is not much more than a gypsy wagon. All we lack is a goat or a mule […]

With school starting back all over the country, I thought it’d be fun to do a little roundup of classic schoolhouse-inspired designs that you can integrate into your own home. But let’s get past the chalkboard wall for a bit, because there is so much more style to love about American schoolhouses. If you love […]