From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Nursing in comfort

November 30, 2009

My son is now nearly two months old and yes, I do man­age to nurse him. He takes ages to get full up, so I sit a LOT… I try to walk about nurs­ing him some­times, but it isn’t always a good time or a good idea… So, I have to sit com­fort­able when he […]

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My Favorite Shops for Gifts

November 24, 2009

As the gift-giving sea­son approaches, I thought I’d list a cou­ple of my favorite sites for brows­ing for gifts, (apart from the var­i­ous Ama­zon coun­try sites, of course). The MoMA Store — This is the shop for the Museum of Mod­ern Art in NYC.  As you can imag­ine, the focus here is on design.  There […]

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The BVS Top Ten Toys of 2009

November 2, 2009

As Christ­mas approaches, I know we’re all won­der­ing what to get for the lit­tle ones in our lives.  For some ideas, here are the Ger­man BVS, Bun­desver­band des Spielwaren-Einzelhandels (Fed­eral Asso­ci­a­tion of Toy Retail­ers) top ten toys of 2009.  They’re not all avail­able out­side of Ger­many, but most are.  Have fun! 36 Cube by Thinkfun — […]

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