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nesting

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Spring!  The time of fresh starts, new beginnings, growth.  Time, after a long Winter, to clear out the cobwebs, throw open the windows to let in fresh breezes … and time to clean. Next week, April 12 – 16, Tsh is going to be talking about Spring Cleaning for Normal People at Simple Mom.  In [...]

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Families have seasons where life is very busy and seasons where life slows down.  My family is no different.  I know that in my own family, sometimes our rhythms flow smoothly, effortlessly … sometimes we have to work at them and give them a lot of attention to hold them into place. More than one [...]

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beach walking

Sometimes, as an outsider looking in at another family’s routines, it is easy to wind up feeling discouraged or overwhelmed.  If you’ve been feeling that way during our series on routines and rhythm this month,  I want to gently remind you that the routines for the families featured probably didn’t fall into place in one [...]

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hopscotch

During the month of March at Simple Kids we’re talking about rhythm and routines.  Keeping in mind that every family’s needs are different and therefore every family’s routines work differently, I thought it would be fun to ask some real moms with families in a variety of situations and ages and stages of childhood what [...]

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cloth diapers

Simple Kids readers might be interested in Katie’s article today at Simple Organic on using cloth diapers. Cloth diapers are experiencing a sort of renaissance these days. While disposable users still outnumber cloth users by far, the cloth diaper industry grew by 58% in 2008 alone! That’s a huge number. So what is attracting all [...]

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