Tsum Tsum

by Ashley Weeks Cart

Y’all, adjusting to Sunny’s new school schedule and life with two full-time working parents is, well, bumpy? Exhausting? Complicated? Stressful? Overwhelming? So in other words, like every other family’s life with children. We’ve eaten cheerios, scrambled eggs and PB sandwiches for dinner the past three nights, so, yeah, we’re a work in progress.

We’ll find our new normal eventually, but we are so not there yet. In the meantime, bandwidth to do anything but my day job and keeping my dependents alive is nonexistent.

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I suppose that’s a bit of an exaggeration since I’m typing this, but I wanted to quickly share a snap of these adorable Disney stuffed animals gifted to the girls by James’ grandmother, their great-grandmother. She saw an article about them in The New York Times, and couldn’t resist. They are charming indeed (and I tend to be fairly opposed to commercialized/branded toys for the kids) but I admittedly ADORE these.

They’re designed by the Japanese (clearly) and called “Tsum Tsum.”

And I want to collect ALL of them. Santa may be adding to the collection this December. Find them for purchase here.

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