World of Julie

At long last, the gingerbread house is stale and done. I’m so glad to get my wooden tray back. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fworldofjulie.com%2F%3Fp%3D1044′; addthis_title = ‘Gingerbread+House+R.I.P.’; addthis_pub = ”;

Posted on January 31st, 2009 under Food. Tags: baking, cookies, gingerbread house, holidays. Comments: 4

Once again, Eli is making his preference known regarding all matters birthday. Henry: How many days until Eli’s birthday? Julie: Twelve. Eli: I don’t want a birthday. Julie: No party? Eli: No. Julie [expressing deep relief]: Any special food you want to eat on your birthday? Eli: Peanuts. Julie: How about peanut butter cupcakes? Eli: [...]

Posted on January 30th, 2009 under Eli, Henry, Parenting. Tags: birthday, holidays, moonbounce, party. Comments: 13

Yes, well, as Sarah pointed out, what do we do about the baked goods? First I read about Pear and Bittersweet Chocolate Cake on Smitten Kitchen and I became this baking zombie where I walked, trance-like, into the kitchen, and basically didn’t snap out of it until the cake was all done. Because, I mean, [...]

Posted on January 29th, 2009 under Food. Tags: baking, cake, carrots, chocolate. Comments: 10

Right now we’ve got giant snow mountains everywhere (outside, that is, my house hasn’t gotten so bad that we have mountains of snow inside, yet). It seems to be physically impossible for Henry to walk on the ground. He needs to climb the snow mountains and navigate his way to school from as great a [...]

Posted on January 28th, 2009 under Julie. Tags: baking, cake, challenge, chocolate, cookies, exercise, fitness. Comments: 2

The big excitement of this past weekend was the installation of a new toilet in our downstairs bathroom. Our downstairs bathroom is one of the areas we can show people when we want to show how much work we (Dave) have done on the house, since it’s pretty indicative of the state of our house [...]

Posted on January 27th, 2009 under housekeeping. Tags: bathroom, home improvement, toilet. Comments: 5

The Little Fisherman by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Dahlov Ipcar These days in our house, a good measure of a children’s book is how quickly and totally it gets adapted to everyday play. There are some books that are read and absorbed and maybe even discussed, and then there are the Really Good and [...]

Posted on January 26th, 2009 under Children's Book of the Week. Tags: books. Comments: 3

As Eli says, “She’s so cheekable.” addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fworldofjulie.com%2F%3Fp%3D1013′; addthis_title = ‘Saturday+Zuzu’; addthis_pub = ”;

Posted on January 24th, 2009 under Zuzu. Tags: Zuzu. Comments: 5

Not long ago, Henry and Eli became obsessed with “Dinner Bell” by They Might Be Giants. After listening to the song approximately three billion times, they secretly conferred and then came to me wondering, “What is a dinner bell?” This led, happily, to my mom bringing us my grandmother’s old dinner bell. Now, most nights [...]

Posted on January 23rd, 2009 under Parenting. Tags: bell, dinner. Comments: 10

You know it’s bad when you have the urge to stop in the middle of dealing with your children, say, “Wait right here!” and go consult all your parenting self-help books. What exactly was I supposed to do? I hadn’t slept at all the night before, between teething Zuzu and continues-to-scream-out-for-me-every-night Eli. The boys were [...]

Posted on January 22nd, 2009 under Parenting. Tags: anger, clutter, discipline, mess, Parenting. Comments: 9