Grace and I were alone last weekend. It was lovely. We went out for dinner (both nights!). We walked down the street on Saturday to a neighborhood restaurant holding hands. We read our books for hours, sitting in bed next to each other. We finished Harry Potter 2 and watched [...]
I’ve been poking through my archives today, leafing through old posts and reading quotations that I want to post again. These are all by Catherine Newman, who is without a doubt one of my favorite writers – her book Waiting for Birdy is fantastic, and I miss the blog she used to write for babycenter. [...]
I really love this piece, Parenting in the Age of Paranoia: A Small Manifesto. The author says a lot of things that I agree intensely with. Many sentences left me nodding firmly to myself. Like this one:
We do our child a great disservice when we protect them from all risk and harm, [...]
What does the heart hold?
The heart holds love, of course. The many, complex manifestations of love in our lives: fierce devotion, fiery ardor, well-worn attachment, profound connection. The heart holds our faith, which flickers and dances depending on the day. The heart is striated with our scars, from times that people have [...]
Gracie has been sort of a whiny pain about her birthday party lately. It’s going to be joint with another classmate and she can’t stop complaining about that. She doesn’t want to share, she doesn’t want to share, she doesn’t want to share. Well, shocker.
I’ve gotten pretty short about the whole topic [...]
I’m over at Chicken & Cheese today.
Please stop by – this is one of my most beloved blogs for its honesty and humor, and I am honored to be guest posting.
School started on Tuesday. First grade for Grace, Beginners for Whit. It was sentimental for me when my first-born child was a Beginner, but now my baby is. Wow. There are many pluses to this new moment in my mothering adventure: there is a new logistical ease, having them in a [...]
Ronna Detrick’s post today called Holding On is ringing all of my bells. Oh yes I know this feeling. Sadly I have more of these edgy, dark, slippery days than of the sunny ones, and I want desperately to reverse this ratio. Sadly for me holding on sometimes does feel desperate, perhaps [...]
This heirloom tomato jumped out at me this morning. I think it looks like a human heart. Punctured in places, striated with scars, not as full and round and perfect as it once was, but still shining with reflected light. The scar tissue is even, in its own way, elegant; it surely [...]
Annual trip to Water Wizz this morning. Grace, Whit and I were, as usual, about 15 minutes early. So we sat in the car, with the heat on. Note: summer vacation in September has some drawbacks. Especially at a water park. We met Clem, Campbell, and their father for some [...]
