Several readers asked what I will be doing now that I’ve graduated and am on to the next stage in life. Am I on the (academic) job market? Are we moving? Will there be more Simply Bike? The sho...
This picture was snapped by my good friend A. after my dissertation defense this past Thursday. T. is holding our stroller and the multiple copies of my dissertation with my committee’s remarks...
Name: Timur Age: 32 Languages you grew up with: Turkish and English {Timur, outside of the Historic Windsor Station in Montreal} How were your childhood languages introduced? Who spoke what language ...
{image source} The day after I posted a few of my old childhood photos on here, I come across this website via NPR. Sipping my morning coffee, I looked through the pages of accumulated nostalgia, tak...
My mom just recently sent me these photos taken in Romania in 1983 when I turned one. Isn’t my mom just beautiful? With us are my maternal grandparents (my only grandparents still alive today),...
{image source} I’ve been waiting a long time for this: our daughter is finally big enough to take cycling with us! She has good body and head control, is comfortable sitting up on her own, and ...
Name: Omma Number of children and ages: My daughter is 7, my son is 5 The languages your family uses: French & English (and a very little Twi) {Omma and the “bilingual babes” on vacat...
I was recently alerted to the blog Around the World with a Two Year Old and I’m so happy to have come across it. Having read through as many posts as possible during the spare minute here and t...
We’re recovering from an exciting weekend of graduation celebrations, visits with family and friends, and entirely too much food. Congrats to Dr. T! So excited and proud of you! xoxo
Had you been standing next to us at the zoo this past weekend, you would have overheard the following: My husband, wearing our daughter in her carrier, pointing to the various animals and describing ...
{taken on a recent walk} It’s May! This is going to be an exciting and eventful month for us, so just a heads up if I disappear sporadically or am slow to answer comments and emails. This month...
Name: Annabelle Number of children and ages: 1 daughter: 2 years old, LJ The languages your family uses: French, English, Portuguese, German. {Annabelle and her multilingual family} What motivated yo...
Are you ready for this? The contents of my phone from the past few weeks… Life is good. Happy Friday, everyone!
{photos c/o Brent of A Simple Six} Following my cat littler container post from earlier this week, Stacy of A Simple Six sent me these photos taken by her husband Brent on a visit to Positive Spin in...
Name: Preeti Number of children and ages: One child, 8 years old The languages your family uses: English, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada {Preeti and her daughter} What motivated you to raise your child(ren) ...
It’s been far too long since I’ve written a green living post. A draft of this one has been sitting in my archives for a good while and since gardening and growing season is upon us, I th...
Name: D (aka Chalkdust and Boots) Number of children and ages: 1 daughter, age 3 months (C, aka Baby Boots) The languages your family uses: Spanish, English, Greek {D’s adorable daughter C., ak...
Thank you all for the helpful comments and suggestions on my travel post last week! Reading your tips and anecdotes made me think of some questions I have for the actual trip past the time spent on a...
Name: Kate Number of children and ages: 1 child, age 2 (so far!) The languages your family uses: English, German, and a wee bit of Dutch {Kate’s son, Aleksander, working on a puzzle} What motiv...
I’ve been freaking out a bit because I have a 5K race coming up that I had signed up for in an attempt to motivate myself to get back to running more regularly. I wrote about how my return to running...
This is the third in a series of guest posts for Girls and Bicyles on the subject of cycling while pregnant. You can follow along with the series here or on Girls and Bicyles, where you can also read...
And it’s the weekend. Wow, this week just flew by. I’m back to making some final edits to my dissertation before printing it and turning in hard copies to each one of my committee members...
Name: Desirée Number of children and ages: Santiago, age 4; Mateo, age 10 months The languages your family uses: English and Spanish (and Spanglish!) {Desirée’s two adorable sons, Santiago and ...
Name: Bobbie Number of children and ages: 1 boy, 6 months-old – T. The languages your family uses: English, German, and Spanish {Bobbie, reading a German story book to her son, T.} What motivated you...
Yesterday’s article by Amanda Marcotte in Slate has ignited a wave of responses from parents, feminists, and mothers on my twitter feed and I can’t help but compose my own reply to the discussion. My...
{1: Umbrella stroller 2:Baby Bjorn carrier 3: Passports 4: iPad 5: Carry-on with essentials 6: Toys 7: Food for baby} {Our trip: Munich to Romania, back to Munich, on to Prague, on to Vienna, back to...
It’s been a big week for us here. On Monday, T. defended his dissertation and became officially “Dr. T” :) A friend was nice enough to take C. for an hour on campus so that I could ...
Name: K (& A, my son) Number of children and ages: One son, 4 months The languages your family uses: I speak to A primarily in Hebrew. My husband speaks only English so obviously that is the la...
Name: Angi Age: 28 Languages you grew up with: Persian, Armenian & English (in the UK) {Angi with her “language triangle family”} How were your childhood languages introduced? Who s...
Name: Mom Hannie and Mem Rinskje. Children: We have one three year old boy Henrik Rinse and are expecting our second child this summer. The languages your family uses: Mom Hannie speaks Dutch and Mem...
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