July 29th, 2012 by Busy Mommy

The desire to find Nolan more buddies to start hanging out with led me to meeting my own new friend as well. 

At the risk of sounding like that total 1950’s housewife (well I am a housewife or was that a home engineer and manager? Either way, I’m proud of what I do!), when we realized suddenly that we both use the exact same soap-based products from a special company based in Oakland, we knew we had some similarities in thought process.  Before we ever met, concerns over the eczema that both our sons were dealing with led us  each to our research online to a certain website written by a woman who cured her son’s eczema by switching from detergent based products to soap based products.  Well it didn’t cure my son’s eczema, but it’s still healthier to use, and just goes to show we are both on the same wavelength.  Oh that and the fact that she’s a Laura Ingalls book lover, which of course I can no longer even count how many times I’ve read those books.

Gideon and Nolan, literally only a month apart in age, have been really having a fun time at our recent outings- this most recent one was Little Farm in Tilden Regional Park.  I can’t believe I’ve never been there all these years!  It’s an awesome place!  I can’t wait to take Ben back there.

Of course, the boys knew what was best to do at a place like this… Now if only I’d gotten the “play with trains in mud puddle” photo.