Amber’s Blog
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SAHM Confession
My kitchen is a disaster. There are picture books strewn through the living room, in stacks in the dining room and falling from the shelves in Nora’s room. And when everyone else’s toddlers are asleep,I jammie up Nora and head over to the Brotherhood for a little “late-night” visit with Dada, play in the upstairs…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week How to Get More Likes on Facebook, The Oatmeal — This is BY FAR my favorite find of the week. The Myth of Sustainable Meat, NY Times — Op-Ed about whether meat eating can ever be sustainable. Sex and the Office: Evolving Depictions of Working Women, Slate — A slideshow of images depicting…
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Spinning Cotton Tales
This year we decided to try something a little different around Easter time. I wanted to dye eggs, because it’s fun and they’re pretty and I knew Nora would love it. So we did, with natural egg dyes made from annatto seed, curcumin, purple sweet potato and red cabbage. Nora was amazed at the transformation…
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Saturday Surfing
It seems like it’s been forever since I managed a Saturday Surfing post, but I decided to make it a nap time priority today (instead of the millions of other things I need to do…). A few of these links have been hanging out waiting to be shared, so they’re a little old… Finds of…
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Film Friday: March in the Kitchen
in Film FridayIs it still Film Friday if I post at 2:30 am Saturday morning? I’m going to pretend it is, take advantage of that handy publish in the past feature, and go to bed. Enjoy!
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What I’ve Been Doing Instead of Blogging…
It seems like it’s been forever since I wrote an actual blog post (nearly a week!), but we’ve been hard at work and play the last few days. I finished up a website for Caitlin Marcoux, my fabulous yoga teacher and new friend, early in the week and have spent a lot of time finalizing…
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The Cost of Paradise
Note: Normally, today would be a Film Friday post, but tomorrow is town meeting and I didn’t have a chance to get this post finished up last night, so I’m sharing it tonight before tomorrow’s big vote. Film Friday will resume next week. Every spring, in old-fashioned small-town New England style, the entire town packs…
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Berry Patch Farm
Even after two years on island, I am still discovering new places and things. This past weekend, little Miss E, baby M, and their mama introduced Nora and me to Berry Patch Farm. We ate a picnic lunch, petted goats and horses, and fed the biggest rabbits I have ever seen. It’s incredibly awesome that…
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Vacation Day
Lately, I’ve been working almost full time on websites. At least six hours, usually more, every day because I’m trying to get several of them done by the end of the month. Of course, with Nora, that means I have been pulling some very late nights to get things done. Friday, was the first day…
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Will Power…Or Not
For St. Patrick’s Day/my birthday, I made car bomb cupcakes, then headed off to my monthly potluck group to share them with friends. Guinness, whiskey, baileys, and chocolate, what’s not to love? (P.S., that’s St. Patty’s green avocado frosting for the kids.) This is one of my favorite Smitten Kitchen recipes. And with just a few…
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Film Friday: Conversations at Two
in Film FridayWhen I was looking through videos from after Nora’s birthday, I was most struck by the conversations we were having — in fact, it was clear that most of what I recorded during the month of September was just that: conversations with Nora. It was during this time that Nora was obsessed with the Sesame…
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Happy Spring
The weather this whole week has been lovely, and today was no exception.We’ve been getting out to bask in sunshine and slowly shedding layers, first coats, then jackets, as we meander from our unusually mild winter into spring. The Brotherhood is closed on Tuesdays, and so we get to have Chris at home for the…
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Twenty-seven
Today, I turned 27. We had beautiful weather and a nice quiet day; play group, lunch with a friend, then dinner at the Brotherhood. Chris surprised Nora and I by being out of his chef whites when we arrived and waiting out front. For the first time in months, the three of us ate dinner…
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Film Friday: Double Feature
in Film FridayI have two videos to share today. The first is a recording of one of my Tiny Tumbler’s classes. I had top record it since we have so much fun in this class — although there are definitely moments of wandering when it comes to two and three year olds. (Editing this, it was pretty…
