Claire’s smart. This fact wasn’t overly apparent this summer. Any casual observer would have to admit that there was a pretty big difference between dear Claire, who was content to paint with watercolors and fill buckets with sand at Bear Lake, and my sister’s daughter (who’s six months younger), who could write all her letters…
Now that school’s started and we’re home from China I have to come to the stark realization that the sun has set on my summer glory days. As much as I do love being back on a schedule again (even though we’re not really, because being glued to the Olympics until wee hours of the…
Ok, enough blabbing about the Olympics. I promise to be done after this. But I’ve got to write this all down before it fades since it was the trip of a lifetime for us.I loved the Olympic venues. I loved the dancing water show in front of the Water Cube.I loved how everything looked all…
I’m in Heaven. Honestly, I can’t explain how much I love to travel. Especially when, (warning: a little on the sappy side here…), I get to travel with my best friend. We had a LONG flight over here and didn’t get much sleep not only because we were in tiny seats but because we were…
Every year my sisters, sisters-in-law and I have a mini reunion. It’s called MFME (an acronym for the girls in my family). It was founded by my amazing mother years ago when all of us girls started leaving home. Since we scattered all over the place, MFME is totally precious to us. It’s our one…
It’s so interesting being up here with my sisters. It’s made me really think about motherhood stages. Although all three of us are mothers, we are all in such different phases of motherhood. Their kids are all considerably younger than Max and Elle. And for some reason that brings me to this stark realization: I…
My favorite motherhood quote reads like this: “Everything in all the books I once pored over is finished for me now. Penelope Leach. T. Berry Brazelton. Dr. Spock. The ones on sibling rivalry and sleeping through the night and early-childhood education, all grown obsolete. Along with ‘Goodnight Moon’ and ‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ they…