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Kellie Martin
Actress Kellie Martin has always seemed
at home on the screen… but talk to her
about motherhood, and she just lights up
with a joy that is positively infectious. It’s
hard to tell who is learning more about life
these days – Kellie, or her daughter Maggie (age 6).
they start to sprout do we realize what she’s
done!
Kellie chats about parenting, gardening,
and how she was inspired to take over the
online toy store, ROMP, when it nearly
closed down last year.
Kellie: Maggie harvests the fruit, herbs
GCM: What has your daughter taught
you about life?
Kellie: I’m a type A person. Love to be
in control. Even with pregnancy, I realized
that my life would change in a major way.
Maggie has taught me to roll with things,
having a child is beautiful chaos. I take each
day as it comes now and find joy in the little
things. Being in nature, picking my daughter up from school and cooking for my family far outrank anything work-related these
days.
GCM: We hear you have a garden.
Does your daughter help out with it?
Kellie: Our garden is fantastic! We started
it to teach Maggie that food comes from the
earth, not from the grocery store. Maggie
loves being a farmer. She actually plants
seeds when we’re not looking, only once
GCM: Tell us about other family hob-
bies you have... cooking together as a
family? If so, what is your favorite thing
to make?
and vegetables for me to cook. But mostly
she loves to bake. She loves measuring out
ingredients and kneading dough. We love
making hummus and baking cookies together. Other hobbies we enjoy are hiking
with our yellow lab, and we are currently
reading the second installment of Harry
Potter.
GCM: We were delighted to discover
ROMP and the products you carry especially the classic style, low-tech
toys. We also believe in no-battery toys
to help foster creativity and independence in kids. How have you seen that to
benefit your daughter?
Kellie: I have a very creative kid. She can
make a toy out of anything. She actually
gathers sticks, rocks and leaves from the
backyard and spends the afternoon (with
the yellow lab, of course) playing make-believe. The huge benefit of having her grow
up around open-ended toys is that Maggie
never gets bored.
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