Callie Feyen

What you’re looking at in the above picture is official Banner stationary, and an official Banner business card for a newly appointed news correspondent. I done went and got a writing gig!  Not familar with the magazine?  Well, friends, that’s OK.  Start with this article and you’ll be good to go.  I know the author, by the way. She’s only… View Post

walks in tanktops, trips to the mailbox become adventures in exploring new territory, meetings around the water table, cookies baked for an end of the school year picnic, mornings spent looking at the ducks summer’s here.

This afternoon the girls and I went to Starbucks.  This is nothing terrifically novel, we find ourselves there often after the park or library or errands.  “Can we sit?” they always ask, holding chocolate milk boxes in their hands.  I always say yes. Today, we brought along coloring books, math puzzles, and reading books.  Hadley and Harper worked on them while… View Post

Hadley: Mama, I have a problem. Me: What’s the problem? Hadley: The problem is that I want to be a paleontologist when I grow up but I can’t be one. Me: Why’s that? Hadley: Because paleontologists are boys not girls. Me (trying to stay calm): Girls can be paleontologists! Why don’t you think you can be a paleontologist? Hadley: Because… View Post

If I know anything about moms, it’s that we LOVE getting unsolicited advice.  We wake up hoping that someone will tell us how to do things better. For example, when I was pregnant with Hadley, and she was 14,657 days overdue, I dealt with the realization that I would be pregnant for the rest of my life by purchasing two sprinkled… View Post