I love art. I mean, I really, really love it. Perhaps my powerful appreciation for art began through exploring art museums with my mom. Growing up we had the chance to travel a lot, and my amazing mother took me to art museums all over the place. A Particularly Meaningful Art Museum I remember one…
When my son Max turned fifteen, I was caught in that familiar swirl of maternal worry: Will he be motivated? Is he prepared for the world? Am I doing enough? Looking back now—all these years later—from the perspective of a ‘seasoned’ mother with grown children, I see those messy teenage years so differently. So I…
A couple weeks ago my friend sent me an article by Courtney Martin called “The art of care mostly disappears(except it is also eternal).“ And as I read it, sitting in the car after a particularly difficult motherhood morning, my eyes welled up with tears. This author spilled out the words that so perfectly narrated…
About 71 Toes Hello & Welcome Here at 71Toes you’ll find the story of how my husband and I have muddled through raising our five children mixed with hundreds of ideas that will expand your parenting landscape. I’ve always been a record-keeper at heart. Over the last fifteen years, what started as a family journal…
So I’m a little late celebrating Earth Day, but I got sucked into my computer looking for pictures of the earth for another project and my heart is melting with love for this place as our ultimate “shelter in place.” It is fantastically gorgeous and miraculous and takes my breath away on a daily basis….
Today is a little mini celebration for me. Because I finally have my act together enough to do a “favorite things” post. My “friend” Melissa (“friend” is in quotes because I haven’t met her in person yet, but I feel like she’s my friend through blogging), has been doing a “favorite things” blog hop kind…
On a side-note to that title, MFME (Mothers and Future Mothers of Eyrealm) has kind of morphed into “ME” (Mothers of Eyrealm) since now everyone is a mother, but we discussed calling it “WE” instead (Women of Eyrealm) since some of the grandkids are now turning into women and may join us before too long…and…
It’s going to take me a minute to get to the forgiveness part of this post, because there’s some background to go over first. Let’s start with this. See these two awesome women right here? One is my mother, and the other is my sister. And I adore them… Along with all of these other…
Still so weird to me that we were in China for all this holiday hoopla last year. So much goes on in the Fall and I love it. But oh how I loved nestling up together in China and remembering what all this season really is about. I hope I can remember that this year…