I love when I spot some well-designed version of childhood essentials on the market! Yes, this water table is outrageously overpriced, but just seeing a serious upgrade from the plastic-bulk preschool staples gives me peace of design-mind; for it will eventually trinke down into common-place, affordable, and much-better-looking playspaces. I'm already feeling the summer heat! You can find it in 4 beautiful color combos here.
The Mini Social is brimming with heaps of goodies today! Including 3 of my most favorite children's books, some charming casual-dress clothes for boys, legendary loot by mid-century artist Charley Harper, awesome graffiti style learning via Alternative ABC's, and a collection of adorable baby threads!
If you are not a Mini Social member yet, you are now officially invited to join the party here.
Happy thrift-ing!!
Happy sun-soaked Friday to you all! Here's a few links I've been meaning to share:
- A cute + clever creative-table invention for the kiddos.
- The Bugaboo Donkey prices are in. Oh my!
- My latest Algemeiner article, "The Zaidy Syndrome".
- Zara Kids Spring 2011 Collection is brimming with children's chic and class.
- A Rabbi seriously redefines devotion after the tragic New Zealand quake. (Tzippy, you've got quite the man on your hands! We love you and miss you guys!!)
- Some really great lunch-box ideas from Gwyneth - to revamp the old routine.
Happy (almost spring!!) weekend!
In honor of the birthday of Theodor Geisel -the madman-genius who is Dr. Seuss, (and for Mimi who let me in on that super-random, super-notable fact!), I'll share a kosher-kitchen recipe inspired by his most non-kosher of books. Green Eggs and Pam (well, technically it's not even real "pam", just extra virgin olive oil from a Misto spray bottle) came to me when I was a single workin'-girl, at home in Chicago for 24 hours for a friends wedding, and famished/hungover at about 4am in my mother's cook-tempting kitchen. Out came the eggs, the skillet- the pesto! It's not a recipe so much as a revelation... Whisk eggs with a generous dollop of pesto; scramble, fry, or poach your way to savory-breakfast perfection! Garnish with flecks of goat cheese, feta, or even parmesan.
Plus, once we're on the Seuss subject, I'll leave you with some loony links I love:
2. Cartoon + Converse Collaberation
4. A totally rad Purim getup - for 2!
Happy Birthday to the man who encourages our children to "Hop on Pop" - which is especially helpful in the early morning!
My preschool/parenting guru (Chanie Perelmuter over at the Hebrew Academy) told us at last weeks Mommy & Me that 2 year olds are prime candidates for run-from-the-room-screaming Purim terror. All the masks and costumes can really scare their socks off! I can imagine that would be something difficult for a mom to contend with whilst trying to keep her toddler quiet through a lengthy Megilla reading... Her advice was to start teaching the "masked" concept now, at least a few weeks before. Have your kids decorate some form of disguise, or unearth some masks, costumes, wigs etc. from the family Purim box in the storage closet, and have your preschooler try them on in front of the mirror. Throw a mini masquerade and teach them a bit about dress-up for the next few weeks... That should ease the impending costume-phobia. The point is to teach them that a mask/costume is a covering, they should know there is a familiar face underneath. Just thought I'd share the wisdom!
(All the mask talk has got me thinking about this theme.)
