Family Life & Kids
Almost ten
April 10, 2009
My oldest will be 10 next month. She has been a joy to parent right from the beginning - really. (This can't be said of all my children!) Everything has been very smooth sailing until... now. Are there any other parents of ten year old girls, or almost ten year ...
Ride baby Ride!
March 28, 2009
It really does feel like spring when we can get the bikes out of the garage and find clear paths to ride on. The driveway still has piles of snow but we found dry sidewalks at the nearby college campus. Brienne's first time on two wheels With me running along ...
Grieving, writing, remembering
March 23, 2009
My father-in-law passed away this weekend. This is one of the few times I've felt blog speechless. Obviously this is a private family time and yet my relationship with him is a part of who I am. And so I am left floundering for words that I can express here. ...
Short on words
March 18, 2009
Dawn from my daughters' bedroom window I've worked these words over and over in my head and there is no poetic, witty or encouraging way to write about this. Sometimes life is painful and heartbreaking. We got a call yesterday that I knew would come someday, but the reality is ...
Winter Bliss
March 5, 2009
It was a lot of work getting there, to that cabin in the woods. But it was so, so worth it. To have the time and space away from ordinary life, in the woods.
the word for March
March 4, 2009
The creative-artsy blogs I visit, Shutter Sisters being one and a whole lot of others (see NIMBY for the blogs I regularly read), are choosing words for each month throughout the year and writing about or taking photos along that theme. I generally don't like to box myself in or ...
A foodie birthday
February 27, 2009
It was Laurent's birthday today. And I recall that a couple days ago I said I wasn't blogging till next month, oh well. I have to share these photos and thoughts from the day. I suffer from "if I don't write about it, it didn't really happen". The day was ...
