• How do we, bloggers/mothers/women, do it all? We have help. (Brandon stays home with the kids now, but when he was working, I hired someone to watch the kids three days a week while I worked.)

• A secret lullaby factory. [via Rena Tom]

• I think WBEZ’s 2032 Pledge Drive is clever and not at all meant to be taken as a serious mandate, but some of my friends are outraged (and throwing around words like ‘eugenics’ and ‘heteronormative’). What do you think?

• Here’s what I’m working on this weekend with my camera: practicing back button focusing.

• Turns out there was a good reason for Bill to wear his Cosby sweaters, besides just looking rad.

• “I feel so sorry for the public.”

• Now that I know how to keep a plant alive (for the most part), I want to find spaces for all of these modern wall planters. They’re so good!

• Great tips on how to style your sofa.

• Pick up one of these adorable table banners, and you’ll be set with a quick party decorations.

• Is that a bug on your shirt?

• Bring a little art into your home in a different way with Leah Durner’s new collection for west elm.

• Get the look: a cozy, modern family room.

• Super sweet doll accessories. Eleanor peeked over my shoulder while I had the post up on screen, and she was pretty enamored.

• How to drastically improve the value of your currency? Oil paintings on pennies! They’re crazy-detailed.

• An abandoned men’s club was restored and is now a home, but the peeling paint was carefully preserved. It looks amazing, and one probably grows desensitized when living there, but I imagine it would feel really creepy inside.

• Quick! You need an emergency compliment.

• Uncovering the clues in Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe. Have any of you been to this exhibit, or plan to go?

• You can rent Grey Gardens for the summer. Just $125,000.

• Thank you, Bethany, for pointing out this glittery, girly baby shower.

• Wonder Woman’s half-brother is Wesley Willis? Rock over London, rock on, Chicago.

• Marij requested a roundup of beds for boys. Voila: a roundup of beds for boys.

• Kids’ stuff that I totally want in my grown-up spaces. (That huge lamp! Awesome.)

• Get the look: a bold octagonal table.

• Quirky little nightlights, many of which feature cows. Moo.

• 5 reasons to paint your home this winter.

• Want to know my favorite indulgence? Hot chocolate on a stick. (It’s fancier than it sounds.)

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• This home is quite different from what I’m usually drawn to, but it’s beautiful.

• Lovely little lies.

• Less lovely: lies writers tell themselves.

• Why we should memorize. (I’m filing the ‘poem lines for a penny’ trick away to use for Eleanor and August in a few years.)

• Open call for Chicagoland artists to paint murals along the Oak Park L walls.

• Nominations for The Homies on Apartment Therapy start today.

• Just like the kind you buy at McDonald’s…”

• I like white walls. Really, I do! Just maybe not when they’re in my house. Victoria is pulling them off well.

• Alt Summit is known for its great topics, friendly bloggers, cute fashion, and yes, those amazing business cards.

• These play tents are so much nicer than the primary-colored plastic monstrosity we have upstairs.

• Chess nerds, meet typography nerds.

• You can get DJ Lance’s shoes for your kids. Because walking around wearing orange shoes is… AWESOME!

• Grandma crafts meet technology with these needlepoint iPhone cases.

• The prettiest storage bins.

• It’s a coffee table. It’s a dollhouse. It’s both! And it’s a brilliant solution for small spaces with kids.

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