Thursday we decided last minute to head to the Wild Animal Park. It was chilly, I wasn’t expecting much, but the kids have season passes that were a gift so it’s no big deal if the day isn’t perfect, we can always go back. I’m glad we went. We walked […]
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Little trashes the dress + an adventure
We went out to the sticks for Lemon Week with Brenda and Bug. See Bug patiently smiling for the photo while my child deliberately makes that face and shovels food in? Yep, that’s her in a nutshell. That was after they came to visit us and we took them on […]
Read MoreThank-you
A few weeks ago I told the story of some wonderful friends who came to the rescue in ways that were very needed at the time. What I didn’t expect was that that would inspire some more of you to do completely spontaneous and generous things that are bringing me […]
Read MoreNever Alone
Sometimes I lose perspective. Ok, a lot of times I lose perspective. I get over whelmed by straws, many tiny little straws that pile up until I feel like I can’t move. Monday was that kind of day. At some point in the morning I called Aaron, who is out […]
Read MoreAnd the Girl is 8
Hello solstice child, The pagan doula who attended your birth held you for a while waiting for a gift from you, born in the dead of the longest winter’s night. That was sort of odd of her, but I didn’t mind. I think the gift was simply you. Every parent […]
Read MoreLittle is 5!
Dear Little, I’m not sure how this happened. You are still my baby girl, yet so big, yet so little, yet so much a small child, but sometimes not. You are a girl in transition is what you are. You still ask every night if you can sneak into my […]
Read MoreSt. Nicholas Day – How our family deals with Santa Claus
If you’ve been reading here a long time you would know that we try to avoid the standard commercialism of the Christmas season. [Ideas for a non Commercial Christmas] We don’t exchange Christmas gifts, for example. We try to find a way that our family can be a gift to […]
Read MoreWedding Pictures
So thanks to Veronica Mitchell’s suggestion I am trying to do NaNoWriMo this month. Yeah, my odds of finishing a book while planning a benefit concert, single parenting while Aaron is on the road and trying to keep school current are low, but I make progress. In between I get […]
Read MoreWhat to do with failure, counting blessings
He comes to me in the evening as teeth are being brushed and baths are drawn. “Could I talk to you in private, after people are in bed?” The mystery hangs over the nighttime singing the girls tucked into bed with dollies slumbering in toy cradles on either side of […]
Read More10 years old
It was your auntie Ana who pointed it out to me. “You have your first double digit child.” I hadn’t really thought about it. One whole decade I have been a mama. By the end of the next you will be an adult. It’s really brief this childrearing thing, only […]
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