Laughing & learning through teachable moments
I’ve been fortunate to have my own mother in all 37 years of my life. She’s answered any question I’ve ever asked her and helped me become a mother to my own children. I have a million memories of her and know her inside and out. The same is true for my dad. And, they [...]
It’s been nearly a month since my last post. I have avoided my computer and blog for weeks now. I’ve been kind of speechless after basically witnessing a miracle. Everything else has simultaneously seemed irrelevant but also glorious. My life pause button had been pressed. Pause. Breath. Pray. Appreciate. And, I guess I’ve finally stopped [...]
Kites can be really, really fun. But in my experience, they are mostly annoying. I want to show up at a park with my crew and have a Mary Poppins moment of kites dancing in the glorious wind as we celebrate life and nature and all those joyous feelings that ooze out of your pores [...]
So as not to be confused with a perfect pancake maker, I’d like to start by sharing this…I mess up all the time. I mess up pancakes, budgets, clean countertops, and well, let’s stop there for now. But occasionally…my pancake artistic talents shine. I give some credit to my dad for starting my pancake affection. He [...]
8am: I don’t know yet if we’ll lose the kids’ first nearly daily climbing tree, but its stirred up some serious frosty emotion around here. Even bacon couldn’t cheer them up at breakfast, although it certainly boosted my parenting moment. The funny thing is it brought back nearly 30 year old emotions of my favorite [...]
I know for sure that many of the best ideas in our house come from ignoring my kids. Not in an unsafe, unhealthy way of course, but in a “go play!” way….in a non-pinterest, unplanned “go play!” way…in a “your eyes are bleeding from the Wii, turn it off and play with real humans way”…hypothetically, [...]
As any proud cheeseball, I live for love. While we cherish guiding our children to learn about everything from volcanoes to poetry, nothing is more important to us than teaching our children how to love others. Unconditionally. Without boundaries or rules or prejudices. Whole-hearted. Love. John and I are often talk about how to teach [...]
Our first substantial snow of the year, a few inches. Enough for a leafy snowman, a snowball fight, and some backyard sledding. We used the sledding as chance to use the Pythagorean Theorem to predict the rate of our descent….I kid. I kid. Is that even possible? We just sledded! We laughed at the yellow snow. [...]
12-12-12 Lists! Any excuse to simmer the cheese in my brain and have fun conversations with the kids. My oldest child and I came up with a need to do something for 12-12-12. A time capsule came to mind, but something easy. We decided to write down 12 random thoughts like current favorites, wishes, wonders, [...]
In our first year of dating, John took me on one of our most memorable dates. He might as well have proposed that day at the park….catching falling leaves. Simple. Cheap. Goofy. Fun. About 10 years later, it was surreal, taking our 3 tiny children to reenact our date. A fall picnic in the park. [...]
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