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Bloxels: A Timberdoodle Review
Perhaps this review should begin with a confession. I have hardly looked at Bloxels. I read the description of it on the website when Timberdoodle offered it for a review. (You can order it by itself of course, or it comes as part of the second grade curriculum kit.) I thought, “I bet my kids would like that.”…
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I don’t have a pocket to place this bit.
How are we all supposed to live with the stuff we said? The things we promised but didn’t follow through? The bits like this, said in my own voice at my own wedding —- For better or for worse. Until death do us part. Where you go, I will go. Your people will be my people. May the…
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The Post Where I Review LuLaRoe and Succumb to Posting Photos of Myself
Alright you guys. In some ways this post is kind of like other posts I have written before. I’ve had a fun opportunity to receive some clothing in exchange for writing a review about said clothing. (In all honesty – here’s how it worked: I purchased a few of these clothes myself. I was given a few of these…
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Five Finds Friday (the coolest ride & how much are boots worth?)
Hello Friday. How have you been? FUNNY Bergen is obsessed with jeeps. I can’t explain it. He just loves them. States their existence every time we drive by one. “Jeep,” the announcement from the backseat on every car ride. This week our friends have a loaner Jeep from their brother and they were so generous as…
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wonder.
“Mom,” she calls my name. Bedtime closing in. “Would you like to sit outside with me and Otto and look at the stars? We can wrap up in blankets.” (Because the temperature was nearly 60 degrees after all.) I would like to do that. I can think of nothing better to do right now, as a matter of fact. And I…
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Famous Figures of the American Revolution: A Timberdoodle Review
Instant curb appeal. If you can claim that an educational tool has curb appeal – this one does! Famous Figures of the American Revolution – sold by Timberdoodle individually or included in their third grade curriculum kit. I was excited to receive these cut outs in exchange for writing this review. “Mom, can we please open those…
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sunshine & apples
And some days are just so full of sunshine. Isn’t that the way it is – the rise and the fall and all the in between? Yesterday my dad breezed in the way my dad does. And – in a more planned but no less exciting manner – a sweet family friend joined us last night for a few…
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Messy Middles
The Messy Middles. It’s a phrase a couple of sweet friends and I use in our daily/weekly/whenever text thread we have going on. It’s an idea. A feeling. A verbal picture of where we think we find ourselves right now. Or always. The Messy Middle. The life we lived before this very day, this very instant, is all pretty…
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Five Finds Friday (chicken pot pie with the best crust & chivalry is still alive)
Blink. Blink. Actually – compared to last week – the one filled with sickness and such – this week was dreamy. Lots of really good school days (good by MY standards, not the kids’ standards, because we got so much accomplished) and lovely fall weather. I give this week a hearty thumbs up. But good week or bad…
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A Poem by Another Writer
I’ve read this poem over and over and finally decided that it is just too good not to share. (I think you appreciate it more with each read – so try it a few times.) __________________ Ode on the Whole Duty of Parents by Frances Cornford The spirits of children are remote and wise, They must go free Like…
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this weekend. in the store. when I embarrassed my own children. almost.
A seismic shift occurred in my parenting world recently. Sometimes you sit in a mode of parenting for so long that you are convinced it will last forever. I still sometimes struggle to believe that my diaper days are over. It was like an entire DECADE you guys, for the love. There are no longer meltdowns if…
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the next new normal
Night has become All Tricky again. (It’s ever-shifting, this Grieving. The Transitioning. The One Day You Are Surprised By What You Thought Was Already Conquered.) In most ways, it’s helpful that it’s been a gradual process, with This and That appearing Here and There. I couldn’t have carried all the weight at one time. Piece by piece was suffocating…
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good morning mistakes.
Have you ever awakened and stretched and planned to love the day only to look over at the clock and see that it is actually an hour and half past when you thought you had set your alarm? That’s today. So my first short list of to-do (write blog post, spend time quietly alone this morning on the porch,…
