I've been saying and I'll keep saying it. This summer is nuts. Company and travels have us rushing about more than we're used to. All good things, all good things. But holy! Weddings, reunions, camping and …
This time feels different. The warm, squishy, dependent child that swam from my body — her legs run now. She involuntarily throws looks - simultaneously irritated and apologetic - my way when I mention anything at …
My daughters watch themselves dance in the window reflection. Margot tucks her shirt in, untucks it. Sways her hips from side to side. Tucks it in again. Spins on one foot, her bejeweled plastic heels stomping the turn to …
Who hosts a big ol' summer sale in her shop during the busiest season of the year the week before going out of town? This girl! (pictured with her children) Getting out the door is my …
Last weekend, we drove a few hours east to join friends on skis. It's always a haul getting on the road for our clan, so I'll withhold the predictable details. The thing is: …
Getting outside is my favorite family activity. The kids vibrant creativity and inquisitive, slow approach to every little thing. The uninterrupted time to just be. Together. I find that when we are home, I fill …
I remember the nervousness and confidence I felt when I chose to leave my predictable job with benefits to be home with my kids and grow into work from here. As my midsection enlarged and …
click here to read days 1-4 day 5 in the car early but not as early as planned always the case for me these days glacier national park going to the sun holy strawberry licorice, song singing, gasping at where we live, …
day 1 early rise, pack, clean, work gram and bakka off with kids time feels longer, gentler quiet, like it once was, years 1-11 missed the kids and talked of them often, in that easy, joking, referential way between uninterrupted kisses, …
