Christmas was likely a holiday that you adored as a child. You can smile and rattle off some treasured family traditions. Even if it was something strange and simple, like stealing the Christmas tree from the Christmas Eve church service because your Dad was a holiday Scrooge and you hadn’t put up a tree that … Read more
Practical tips on making it through the day with toddlers I may have had three kids under four, but I’ve said before that I’m no parenting expert. I think it’s humorous when people ask my parenting advice cause it’s something like. . . . just be the mom you are, coffee and Jesus, and pair … Read more
Yay! It’s #fiveonfriday. A free for all to share a list of “five things” with you. I love it because I can write about anything and everything. Like “Five Reasons You MUST Read or Watch the Outlander” (which would pretty much look like this. . . Reasons 1-4: Jamie and Claire, Reason 5: Scotland. And by … Read more
Lately my one and a half-year-old has a new game. He spins and spins in circles and then stumbles around laughing like a maniac. Because turns out kids are tiny little glorious maniacs. And like most other homes with maniacs, there always seems to be someone not wearing pants or peeing behind a tree, and … Read more
1. cartoon animal ability-bias There are shows centered around the fact that ponies can speak…and live in houses…and sew dresses. But they have pets! Who are mute wild animals without any of these humanized abilities. I call this ‘cartoon animal ability-biased’. Perhaps it is best represented by the band of civil servant cartoon dogs that … Read more
It was something that was learned at home. Watching competent hands dance around the kitchen, tossing about ingredients and measurements that have been memorized by how they feel at the fingertips. Kitchen secrets that get passed down in writing and in watching. I remember my mom’s pantry stuffed with boxes, they were full of the tattered … Read more
Do you ever go back in your Pinterest archives and check out all your old pins . . . . and then laugh at the board ‘2011 You’ made of ‘DIYs That I Will TOTALLY Do!’. Maybe you actually did them (you get your craft on sista!). Or maybe now the board is just called ‘Cool Stuff Other Chicks … Read more
A few years back my bestie, Sophie, instituted ‘Friendsgiving’ as an annual Thanksgiving tradition. Since we both moved here five years ago with young families we have been side by side as we have experimented with different holiday family traditions – making each other part of them most of the way. Friendsgiving begins a week … Read more
It has been well over a year that we have been doing Speech and Language therapy with Levi. I can’t say enough about how it has improved his communication and therefore, his confidence. But there are still some words that both him and his sister just aren’t interested in using in the correct context or … Read more
Conor had always joked about training for a half marathon. It was joke because our free time as parents of three toddlers was usually delegated to finding ‘that smell’. He worked long hours that didn’t lend themselves to training at reasonable hours. But the true truth is that we both knew what would really happen once … Read more