Babby Talk #51
At least the magnolias are in bloom?
Today, running a small business feels particularly stressful. If anyone else out there is scrambling to figure out which way is up, we see you. We have some links for you that we compiled weeks ago that now feel less resonant, but can perhaps serve as a temporary distraction 🙅♀️
7 things at least somewhat related to life with kids:
Bake: The actual best oatmeal cookies we have ever made or eaten (with kids).
Shop: We don't completely set out to dress our children how we like to dress in Tod's-coded driving moccs like they go to private school in LA in the 1990s (which they do not and we did not). It just keeps happening.
Read: This short and sweet field guide to some of the iconic flora in children’s literature is also a timely reminder that love, imagination and respect for Mother Nature are all wrapped up in our ideas of childhood and springtime.
Do: Find out how to support your local monarch butterfly population.
Wear: Sausage earrings. One of many things a very hungry caterpillar might eat and also accessorize with.
Read: For your consideration: are toys just a big scam? We can all agree that children don't really spend real time playing with most of them? (exceptions for actually-played with favorites like legos or bikes or art supplies).
Craft: Perhaps some bunny you know needs a satisfying 15 minute activity to occupy their brain and hands while you do literally anything else?
Something we f*ck with:
🌈 Fact check! Something a child told us this week: "Subtrahend" is the number being subtracted from another number
Deepest cuts for subscribers: interiors that match their people or vice versa? What to send via snail mail and books to meet the moment.