Apologies for the back to back baby posts this week. If you looked inside my brain, it’d just be “baby…

April 25, 2017

As we get ready for baby to arrive, all my memories of Bean’s sweet Montessori infant rattles and bells and…

April 24, 2017

Before Bean started her Montessori school, I had gotten used to trying to replicate the Montessori school experience at home.…

February 13, 2017

“Practical life” activities are very important within the Montessori at Home sphere. And for good reason — kids really love…

January 25, 2017

Bean has gotten into this odd routine of packing everything she has available into a container, then carrying the container…

September 26, 2016

Ok, I know that this probably looks like a stretch. The part where I hand a knife to a preschooler.…

August 9, 2016

With the recent Stanford rape case bearing heavily on our minds, friends and I have been thinking more about how…

June 9, 2016

Sometimes, the perfect blog post pops up in my feed, solving a problem I didn’t even realize I had. That’s…

May 26, 2016

Dave and I are headed to Lake Tahoe for a long weekend, continuing our streak of only visiting ski towns…

May 19, 2016

A few months ago, with a new Billy bookcase fitting perfectly between Bean’s bunk bed and closet, I realized I…

April 11, 2016

The toys have been corralled, I repeat, the toys have been corralled. Ever since Bean was born, we’ve had this…

March 22, 2016

Daffodil season is upon us. I was just at the supermarket the other day and scored three bunches for $5.…

March 17, 2016

A few weeks ago, I shared our experience using a Montessori floor bed from ages 0 to 2.5. But, even…

March 8, 2016

I pulled together this phonetic language game for Bean today, and it was kinda fascinating. In the Montessori world, you…

March 3, 2016

Soon after Bean could walk, Dave and I started thinking about how to bring the world (and her things) down…

February 24, 2016