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two decades. the last was the growing up. the next will be the growing out.
Because I’m an extensive note taker, journal writer, daily recorder of stuff, I am frequently aware of how many months something has been happening or what day such and such an event occurred or what we were all doing thirteen years ago on January 23. (Of course, pair this with the fact that I frequently forget where my phone is…
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five finds friday (ukuleles & queso)
The task of motherhood is a full time one. Anyone who has been a parent and anyone who has been a child knows this. And yet, not any of us, stay at home parent nor 80 hour work week parent, actually has a full time schedule to commit to that one role – the role of parent. This has been…
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Looking Ahead.
Somewhere around the beginning of each new year I haul my children to some place pretty and force them to talk about last year and next year. And if they aren’t chatty, I force them to listen to my monologue. Whatever. This year it was rainy and drab and we didn’t explore a mountain view as we usually do. We…
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five finds friday (superstore, fly fishing, sloppy joes)
I’m going to take your word for it that it’s actually Friday. Alright? I can’t seem to get the kinks worked out of this blog lately. Some updates need to happen, I thought I handled them – I don’t know. I just know that when I share these posts on Facebook the photos are not appearing as they should. Right…
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current plans. current mood.
The holiday schedule makes me feel as if I’m back in college. I’m staying up too late. I’m regretting it during daylight hours. I’m pretending I barely need to be responsible. I’m eating whenever I feel hungry instead of at routine intervals. And I’m eating when I’m not hungry at all – just for fun or for community or for…
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hi.
Hi. Remember me? This is the season where I’m up late and I’m up early. Where my body will likely pay the price for my actions and my lack of sleep. Where the kids and I are hustling and bustling between This and That and The Other. Where I think about my mom and this little black notebook that she…
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Chasing the Christmas Chain
I don’t know how long it’s been. Probably since kids were tiny. Those little countdown calendars of some sort, you know. Nine years ago the format shifted from adorable and quirky to a low budget paper chain. And paper chain it has stayed nearly a decade later. Like EVERYTHING currently, it is more and more difficult to find daily time…
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holiday tears: doing the best we can
It’s always unexpected. And yet. It’s right on time. It was an average Sunday morning. Not one of our better ones. Call it holiday grumpies or the price of too many late nights or the stress of getting it “all” accomplished, but the atmosphere at our home was anything but cherry and light. Bells weren’t ringing and chestnuts weren’t roasting.…
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five finds friday. (the driving. the giving of thanks. the funny video. the perfect measuring cup.)
I have a friend with as many children as I have who are all at about the same ages as mine. Sometimes when we see one another, we make eye contact and we don’t even have to open our mouths. We just know. Life. Is. Busy. It is full. We spend HOURS of our days in a gas-guzzling tank of…
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Colorku: A Timberdoodle Review
This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and words and opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own. ________________________ Oh goodness – this is a pretty one. And I know that isn’t the goal of this game…
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she’s right, he knows her name.
It was maybe three weeks ago when we woke up to faucets that wouldn’t turn on. Water that wouldn’t flow through our pipes. We didn’t know it at first, but it was an issue with our water pump and we had to replace the entire unit. (Which is hidden deep down inside our well.) That weekend Piper and Otto had…
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holiday links.
If you have any plastic cash or actual green bills after Black Friday, I’m going to make a list here of some ways you can spend what’s remaining. Full disclaimer – yes, everything I share here can help me earn plastic money and genuine money as well. Most of it in rather tiny ways, but we all know how piggy…
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parenting reminds me I need Jesus
I wish that I had a couple lives to live. Maybe then there would be enough time to learn from my mistakes. To change the course. To turn the tide. Maybe then I could see the storm before it hits, predict the lightning before it strikes. It turns out, parenting is just another experiment. And, when you get some hindsight,…
