Today a door swings shut. My babies are off to school and I am moving to a new phase. It seems like yesterday that I was feeling those first kicks in my ribs, panicking about sleepless nights with a colicky newborn, or worrying about nursery school. And there is a list of new concerns, of [...]
This is what I’ve been reduced to. I now puree vegetables and hide them in Whit’s food. Sweet potato and carrot puree as a layer under the (wheat germ) breading on chicken nuggets, broccoli, pea, and spinach puree (above) hidden in meatballs, white bean puree in chocolate chip cookies. Come hell or high water, that [...]
That’s Whit’s orange room pattern. I can’t believe it. My baby is going to school! And I can believe even less what a cliche I am being about this. Grace goes to “big kid school” tomorrow, and Monday Whit disappears into the doors of CES. Wow. Email this post
“If you wait for the perfect horse, you will walk.” So sayeth my favorite MD at PEP. This is day 3 of training which has been exhausting and overall somewhat boring. Today Alex came in and gave the 14 trainees some closing words, in which he focused on how they should approach and participate in [...]
And so we go back to real life. The past two weeks have been such a lovely break from regular life – with vacation and time alone, etc. And this morning I woke up, put on the fall clothes (close-toed shoes, black patent, etc) and headed back to work. “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” was talking about [...]
“I will try to give thanks for gifts strangely, beautifully, painfully wrapped.” – Rebecca Wells “We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It’s a messy business, life. It’s hard to figure – full of surprises. [...]
Growing up, Labor Day was always about the Four Families. Before we moved to Marion, our family had a house on Point Connett in Mattapoisett that we shared with the Young family (Maja, blonde, and Nella, bride, above). For at least a week at the end of August the other members of the Four Family [...]
