Any mother will tell you that it’s hard to get things done during the day. The obvious reasons are things like: taking kids to school or activities, breaking up fights, changing diapers, figuring out a meal that everyone will eat, making sure your child remembers to put her underpants on when she’s getting ready for school. Is that last one… View Post
Say, “Uncle”
Recently Geoff and Kellee came to visit us. We went here: and ate these: We did a little antiquing with Diego in Leesburg. However, these pictures are my favorite: A few days ago I lifted Harper up as I high as I could reach and she said, “No, Mommy. That’s for Uncle Geoff. It’s what he does.” And when Hadley… View Post
Closer to Fine
Last week, after I picked Hadley up from school, the girls and I drove to the zoo. It wasn’t too hot out so we ate our lunches with the windows rolled down while listening to the “Silly Songs” CD as loud as I could stand it. We saw a couple of panda bears. We followed elephant tracks to find the giant… View Post
Clumps of Moments
This post is inspired from an excerpt of the poem Small Things by Anna Kamienska: “It’s not from the grand but from every tiny thing that it grows enormous as if Someone was building Eternity as a swallow its nest out of clumps of moments” Our clumps of moments this week: a mixture of sugar, and butter, and vanilla while… View Post
Going on a walk with Zelly
I could not wait for When Life Gives You O.J. to come out. A few years ago, I listened to Erica Perl read about a girl who agreed to walk an orange juice jug as if it were a dog, and I was amusingly hooked. But it wasn’t so much because I hoped Zelly, the main character, would get a real dog. I… View Post
