dripping with passion

today i wanted to share ten thoughts i have on parenting. this is not me giving advice ... i am just starting on the journey of parenthood, and i am noooo expert! but this is me sharing advice - tidbits that i have learned from others or from my (still very limited!) experience. parenting is such a trip, and i really believe that we need to help each other, especially in this super-connected world we live in. so, for what it's worth, here's some thoughts i've had lately on parenting.  (obviously this applies mostly to toddlers since that's the chapter our family is in right now!) (several of the tidbits below are ideas i learned from ralphie jacobs , whose instagram story highlights i have poured over. i love her approach and am so grateful to her for summarizing and teaching all the things she has studied.) one. our kids want us . kids want their parents' attention, more than pretty much anything. they crave us to watch them, talk to them, n...

there is nothing like london in the spring. nothing!! we had an unseasonably warm week last week and bam ! spring arrived. we spent our days just intoxicated with that giddy joy that comes from the start of springtime. we're now back to dreary skies and chilly air for the time being, but the blossoms are out ! and there's a lot of warmth to look forward to.     it's been getting lighter earlier in the day, and i've been heartily enjoying sunrise runs around hyde park and kensington gardens.   we've been blown away by this incredible  yellow tree that burst in our garden, and all the magnolia trees blooming like crazy in our neighborhood.   ian and i got to go to a football match for a date night. it was such a fun cultural experience. sooo much energy in that stadium, and our home team, chelsea, won 3-0.   gabriel has been scrambling all over the flat with his adorable one-knee-one-foot crawl. he's the wiggliest, giggliest baby ever. ...