Mother’s Day is on Sunday and I am sitting here on this Thursday afternoon thinking about motherhood. About how it has changed me. I was a different Me before these three little girls came along. I am a better Me…
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Okay. So, Sister T came over for dinner last night. It was a casual affair. A little takeout. A little chit-chat. We sat around the dining table which was an accomplishment as we tend to be couch- and kitchen-island-surfers of…
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I dropped my daughter at Preschool this morning and as I was leaving to head home and write, I noticed that they were setting up chairs for a meeting in the gym. This jogged my memory about an email I’d…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about parenthood recently. Which makes sense because I have three small girls and parenthood is, at the moment, the lens through which I view the world. Also, I know so many people who are trying…
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He ran out to buy some American singles for grilled cheese. He came home with the coveted orange squares and also with these peach blossom branches from the farmer’s market. They sit next to me now, delicate and strong, content…
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Big Girl is off from school today, so it will be a jam-packed day of little girl adventures, but I wanted to come here and take a few minutes and tell you about this day so far. Because it has…
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Photo by Philippe Cheng. On our wedding day – December 18, 2004.
These days, I find myself thinking about a lot of things. One of these things is marriage. I think this is because I am a married woman and…
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5:28am. Giving myself 15 minutes to write this. Then it’s time to shower and get our day started. I’ve been letting Husband shoulder too much of the morning routine with the girls and I am realizing that isn’t fair, so…
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On Saturday, Husband and I took the girls for lunch at our fave kid-friendly restaurant Ditch Plains and then we wandered home. The big girls begged to “just look” in the toy store and when I remembered that we had…
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“{A mother} discovers with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Are you or were you friends with your…
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