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    Henry the Hacker

    I was just writing a post while sitting on my bed with Henry next to me. I left for a second to check on something. When I came back 30 seconds later, Henry had scooched himself to the computer and started touching the key board. He totally saved the post and then navigated away from it. He could have just as easily published it. Egad!

    So if you see something totally random pop up as a post, you’ll know who the #1 suspect is.

    And he looks so innocent!

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    Be Daring Project

    I’m excited to submit a video for the Be Daring project that my alma mater, Stetson University, is hosting. The video needs to be concise–around 15 seconds–so I probably better draft out what I want to say.

    How about:

    There are more than 4,000 private Montessori schools in our country and only 200 hundred public ones. And yet several members of the creative elite attribute their success to their Montessori backgrounds, such as the founders of Google, Amazon, Wikipedia. The quality of our educational experiences should not be determined by our parents’ incomes. I’m Sara Cotner, class of 1999. I dare to create public Montessori charter schools nationwide.

    What

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    Cloth Diaper Update

    Henry (in his bumGenius diaper) and his friend, Ellie Cate (she wears Fuzzi Buns)

    I haven’t done a Q & A segment on this blog like I’ve done over at 2000 Dollar Wedding, but I received a question via e-mail that I’ve been meaning to address:

    My husband and I are now expecting our first child (we found out it’s a girl yesterday!) and I was hoping to get more of a real-life perspective on the cloth-diapering system. My husband and I don’t seem to have any friends in the area that have done cloth diapering–in fact, they actually look at us like we’re a little crazy

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