Monday was an adventure day, as the kids and I joined a good friend and her children on a trip to the coast.  The whole day was so much fun - mamas chatting in the front seat, kids piled into the back of her minivan, picnic lunch on the sand, hunting for treasure, climbing sand dunes, and eating ice cream. It was such a necessary recharge for me; a chance to spend hours connecting with another woman, another mother, who faces many of the same joys and challenges as I do. Her 5 year old daughter, C spent much of the car ride finger knitting.  I had been taught a version of finger knitting by one of Ella's Waldorf school teachers, but it was way too complicated for Ella - wrapping around 4 … [Read more...]