Dan and I have sat on mountain tops and imagined the day that our children would be sitting next to us. It took an email from our boy’s school announcing the closure of the grades for a year for us to look at each other and say…… “what are we […]
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Dear Time,
You sneaky devil, you. I am finally on to you. You wore a disguise through my childhood. Dressed up as a friend…. joining me for tea parties in the woods, and summers in the sand, and nights under stars. A bottomless cup from which I could drink from at any […]
Seasons of life
Phew. Its been a minute. Turns out writing, reflection and putting together sentences don’t go hand in hand with having 3 small children home every day for the summer while you’re packing up one house, and remodeling another one. Oh right, this is the perfect time to tell you….. we […]
Breathing
Over the years I have read a whole lot of books, articles, blogs, instruction manuals, on this crazy little thing called parenting…. When my youngest became mobile and started taking over the world, my twins were still two. I’ll say that again for those peeps in the back…. That is three […]
The never-ending weekend
There are two ways to look at it. I am referring to being a stay at home mom. It is the never ending week… Or the never ending weekend. In general, Monday mornings get a bad rap. No one says “Looks like someone has a case of the Saturdays”… It’s […]
Wearing my joy
This is me when I was…. 4? Wearing the heck out of my joy. I’m 35 now…. and I finally feel like I know myself…my style…. my niche…. my whatever you want to call it. Like I have been picking up pieces of the puzzle my whole life and I […]
So… what did we do?
This isn’t going to be beautifully written. There is writing to be done, deep, personal writing, but I wanted to start out by just giving you a somewhat gritty, no-nonsense look at the actual changes we made in our life and schedules that we followed this year. If you have […]
The year we took our lives back
One year ago… We sat across from each other with our bottle of champagne, the last of it’s contents being poured into two glasses that sat next to a demolished cheese board.. After 4 years of being governed by a toddler dictatorship that revolved around nap schedules, feedings, white noise […]
My becoming a mom birthday
I had a dream I was holding two babies. I felt the weight of them in my arms, smelled their sweet little bald heads. It was so real and I lie awake the next morning trying to remember every detail. I rolled over, nudged Dan and told him. “I had […]
Things that grow
It is my greatest joy… watching things grow. Tomatoes. Chickens. Sunflowers. Children. Just look up at any given time and you’ll find yourself surrounded by things that are growing. Being around these things every day you don’t notice how fast it all happens. The daily routine keeps you focused on […]