stories
Last month we read Cold Sassy Tree for book club. I had read it before, but I liked it even more this time around. It made me want to shout…
Enough already!
Each year as the school year winds down I make the same goal: “I’m going to let my kids be kids for the summer. Let them imagine and have down-time….
Memories
Sometimes you just have to force a good memory. A couple Sundays ago I piled the kids into the car kicking and screaming (not really, but they weren’t too gung…
Mother’s Day
Ok, and a couple other reasons I love Mother’s Day (aside from the fact that I have such an amazing mother) is because first of all, my kids have made…
Father & Sons
I get amused by Father & Sons. The reason is because of what I always had pictured in my mind of what those words would entail: the dads taking off…
great article
Just wanted to share this great article my sister sent me…Such great insights.
hikes and motherhood
Today we went hiking. It was perfect. These things contributed in a round-about way to why: Lucy weighs 29 pounds. I carried her on my back up and down rocky…
Mirror Land
There’s this magical land far away called “Mirror Land.” In this land, there’s this family called the “Spunks” that is exactly like ours. A mom, a dad, one boy and…
the balancing act
Note: this post is in tribute to “keeping it real.” Do I really want to remember the hard, crazy days in the future when all this fades from my memory?…