nothing prepares you…
Nothing prepares you for the emotionally painful part of parenting. For when life is hard for your little one and you cannot just inhabit his body and make choices that […]
Random Bits
So, some bits for you… 1. For months, Happy has been talking about Fuffin whenever we bring up preschool. Who the heck is Fuffin, we wondered. We looked at the […]
the very first moment
This week’s this moment comes early and with words… Two year ago today, this… and, just like that, everything changed, magnified, made sense. As we celebrate our little family today, […]
Questioning yourself
When I revealed my word for the year last week, a friend of mine shared this thought… “2011 promises to be a difficult one for me, but hopefully in the […]
I See Me!
In college, a friend said to me that I would be so exotic-looking if I just had different colored eyes. What I heard in that moment was that I wasn’t […]
Pour Some Sugar In Me
So there is a side-effect to going off the sauce. Sauce, you say. What sauce? If you missed my sauce abandoning post last week, check it out here. Now, […]
this moment
Every Friday, Amanda Blake Soule (or Soule Mama) has a ritual on her blog called this moment. There, she posts a single photo with no words, capturing a moment from the […]
Random Bits
So, Happy has a tapestry in his bathroom that was handcrafted in Honduras and features many colorful people. We call them his people. When we are getting ready for […]
