Babby Talk #75
Feeling zero pressure with the holidays coming and a zillion sales and gifts and family and travel. Nope, we're fine.
Finding the right gift for the right person can be an epic quest. It’s lucky for you that we unashamedly love to scour the internet in search of the best and most perfect gifts, and we are here to help.
Send us your holiday gifting queries! Ages, stages, people’s kids you don’t know, in-law’s, longtime neighbors and grandparents. Share the details of your gifting question/conundrum/challenge and we will sleuth on your behalf.
The goal is for everyone to have the happiest holiday with the least amount of tears, snippy remarks, and presents destined for re-gifting. Let us help you check everyone off your list and possibly even earn the title of “most elite gifter” in your family.
8 things at least somewhat related to life with kids:
Enjoy: Follow Catherine Price’s lead and consider imposing a device-free holiday table on your guests!
Gift: The joy of not sitting for several hours in a nail salon? Priceless. Chic at-home manicures courtesy of super pro Holly Falcone.
Nest: We feel the most joy when something has a dual function. This is nursery decor that can also be played with. Plus the animals are clever and cute.
Make: It might be that we are filtering this craft activity through a personal lens, but it feels like a solid option for keeping little ones happily occupied on play dates with minimal adult intervention.
Listen: A breastfeeding playlist that meets you where you are which is navigating seismic hormone shifts all the livelong day.
Read: Don’t feel like getting up but you’re still on call for parenting duty? We support you. Have a little rest.
Do: Use one or both of Catherine Newman ’s excellent let’s-get-this-party-started ideas for engaging family and friends and strangers at holiday gatherings.
Watch: Watch Frog and Toad on the TV!! 🥺🥺🥺
Something we would definitely snuggle into and wear to a holiday party:
🌈 Fact check! Something a child told us this week: Apparently, gummy Nerds are actually good
What’s over the garden paywall? Dressing up your bun, easing into middle age, getting better at refining both pies and french braids.
