I love it :D! I should try this with my babies. :-)

so great to see you here!

And waiit til your son learns the excitement of finding bits and pieces of colored glass in the streets and alleys, and build his own treasure. See if you can learn where he will hide this....

S/ A Father who remembers his own treasuer

As someone from a previous parenting generation, I cannot tell you how encouraging it is to see young families making choices similar to those my generation made (despite pressures to achieve in the "outside" world) o be present with our youngsters during the "never to return" years. Introducing personal family rituals around meals and seasons, so that children learn first hand from their first role models, that they are part of nature, not separate from it. Three cheers for this blog! I will share it with my own children and stepchildren as they go about their own parenting. Thank you for making time to document the journey. We know it's never easy to juggle "it all."

In the now defunct Gourmet magazine, the one sane cooking note was the fiction writer Laurie Colwin, whose column Home Cooking, involved her daughter and her own home recipes. When I read about Alder chopping with his knife on his cutting board, and Stacey busy with hers, I thought of her in Colwin's cooking tradition, one that uses the very best teaching technique: the role model. Colwin was a role model for me, as were my mother and my grandmother, and now I add Stacey Bloomfield. I'm trying the sauce!