Posts by mamarhu

I love experimenting with unusual blends - bamboo/silk/alpaca, merino/cotton/llama, a cotton made from recycled jeans, like that. Although I do occasionally buy from the internet, I really prefer to touch yarns before I choose them....

This: http://www.kinektdesign.com/product-gear-ring.php  

Maybe the living room could become your bedroom? I did that in one apartment, for a year or 2, and it worked for us.  

welcome, breebacon!  

What seems to be working in my family is lots of mom time and family activities. As kids grow up, the natural inclination is to spend less time with Mom, not more. Even though DD didn't want to go at first, I sort of insisted (and...

A Le Creuset pan with lid for $35! Seems they run nearly $200 new.     Edited to add: And now, DD is using the new pan to cook some amazing French braised chicken. She won't let me in the kitchen, but it smells fabulous!

The first time I heard my grandson cry, my breasts very nearly did the let-down thing. I felt a totally physical response, and I bet I would have relactated if I had let him nurse. Seriously.  I envy the grandmas in societies that...

When ElderSon's wife seriously relapsed after rehab, he divorced her and got sole custody of his kids. He did the single parent thing for about 3 years, until he remarried a wonderful woman who has totally accepted the kids, and is...

I was going to say something like the posts above. I really never "played" with my kids. They had lots of unstructured time, with friends or alone, and played lots - just not with me. Together, we did different things - housework,...

May I go way O/T to tell a funny, sort of related story?   Around 1950 or so, in an era pre-computer, pre-post-it, and (I promise, this is germaine) and pre-common-home-air-conditioner, my father ran a small import/export...