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    Free Resources for Montessori Infant Education

    I stumbled upon an awesome resource for free information about raising infants in the Montessori way. The company is ultimately trying to sell their products, so the information is riddled with side advertisements, but the information is helpful nonetheless.

    Here’s a snippet of what I learned:

    “We know very little about what a baby really experiences during those nine months in the womb, what he senses, feels, intuits, thinks about, and understands. But we do know that he responds to voices and to sounds and to music. So we offer the best by every day spending some quiet time talking to him, singing, and playing beautiful music.”

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    DIY Birthday Cards

    I have to confess that I have done a terrible job sending birthday cards this year. By “terrible job,” I mean that I literally didn’t write anyone’s birthday on my calendar at all. So I don’t even know when I’m missing a birthday.

    Wow. Not knowing what you don’t know is a really awful place to be.

    So, I’m going to rectify the situation for the second half of the year. Better late than never, they say.

    I’m feeling inspired to make homemade birthday cards. If I make enough of them for an entire year, then everyone can get a handcrafted piece of goodness (but they’ll be made in bulk,

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    Scrapbook Update

    As Matt and I gear up for our next vacation, I’m realizing that we haven’t added our last vacation to our Living, Growing Scrapbook. For Spring Break, we took a road trip out to West Texas to visit Big Bend and Marfa. Good times!

    Hmm…I should also upload pictures from our Mother’s Day trip to Indiana and whatever cute, random pictures we’ve taken of Hoss in the past few months.

    This scrapbooking system works really well for us. I upload the pictures to Snapfish, find a coupon on retailmenot, and then have them mailed to our house. We simply use double-sided tape to stick our photos to

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