Mostly mommy stuff
Great book review on Salon.com for the new book Delusions of Gender … egalitarian-minded parents try hard to rear their children in a non-gendered way. Then you see their children defy them. The fact is, babies are born into a world in which sex is the most important and obvious social division. It’s constantly emphasized [...]
We just got back from 25 day trip to Spain! Matilda and Mateo had an amazing time playing with our family in Spain. Traveling with the kids was grueling. Heck, just driving to JFK is hard enough but then we had to endure an 8 hour flight to Barcelona (thank you Delta for the free [...]
I love IKEA. You can’t beat the prices and I think their reputation for low quality goods is undeserved. Many of the items we bought at IKEA has held up quite well in comparison to furniture that I we bought at Crate and Barrel. And the design is wonderful. Even though we can afford to [...]
Pablo got me a new light fixture for mother’s day! Before After Its called a Nelson Saucer Lamp. The design is by American designer George Nelsen. It was designed in in 1947 and is part of the permanent collection of the MoMA. I love the way it goes with my mid-century design chairs!
Web 2.0 projects make me tear up sometimes. Its kind of the same feeling I get when I imagine Matilda going to college or something like that. I blinked and the web grew up without me really noticing. It seems like just yesterday when I coded my first HTML page (ok ok, it was 15 [...]
I am trying really hard to not go overboard for Matilda’s first Christmas. I learned from my friends that you set a standard for Christmas with your kids that you have to keep up, lest they be disappointed. So Christmas in our family will be a relatively minimalist affair. We decided to get Matilda one [...]
As a person who suffers from a lot of hormonal problems, I have always been a bit concerned about plastics. Since Matilda is formula fed, I was concerned when I heard about Bisphenol A or BPA. Many popular baby bottles such as Avent, Dr Browns and Playtex are made of a hard clear plastic which [...]
It seems to be very fashionable these days to be environmentally conscious. My computer and electronic usage probably causes me to have a huge carbon footprint, but at least we are using cloth diapers with Matilda! People ask me how it works so here is all the info. We use a diaper service called Tidy [...]