As I sit here catching up on This Is Us, this commercial keeps playing that reminds me "The best is yet to come." Inspiring, right? Life gets better from here on out! Yay! Sorry if I sound sarcastic. Part of me is, yes, but I am confident there will be wonderful times ahead and even… Continue reading My Ebenezer, at 35
It's December 5th. Less than 3 weeks until Christmas. How ya feeling? Do you feel all warm and fuzzy and present and ready to celebrate and host and soak in the magic of Christmas? Or, do you feel like I do? A little overwhelmed by the gifts to get, the boxes to wrap, the groceries… Continue reading Advent and Anticipation
Is Five Minute Friday still a thing? Years ago, I remember a former colleague posting about how she followed a site that challenged them to write for 5 minutes on a certain topic and see what developed. Well, since it's Friday and my husband just told me to sit and write for 5 minutes and… Continue reading Together: A Life Update
This morning, my 18 month old carried his nursing pillow to me, dropped it at my feet and then looked confused on what he was doing. When I asked him what he wanted, he started to sign the word for "milk," but got it jumbled and then just walked away. It's been a week and… Continue reading 2,133 Days: I Did That
Yesterday, the first Tuesday of September, was Art Drop Day! It's a day when local artists hide various pieces of art around the city, give clues on social media (#artdropdenver) and then people hunt and find it! Last year, we heard about this event with only a few days notice, but managed to drop a… Continue reading Art Drop Denver
Tonight, my four year old said she didn't want to live with me anymore. Tonight, my four year old picked her new family, said she'd pack her toys and that she'd be ok to go live with her friends. Tonight, my four year old proved that kids are hurtful and cruel and not capable of… Continue reading Parenting Is a Process
A couple of months ago, I began researching tactics we could use to help our backyard trees look a little more alive. For the last few years, they have begun to lose leaves and develop huge bubbles of "sap." If my completely unprofessional, Google research is any indication, we have a scale infestation. Tree scale,… Continue reading For Love of Ladybugs
When you have kids who innately just click and adore each other, it kind of throws you for a loop when suddenly you have kids who can't stand each other. When Sugar Plum found out she'd be a big sister for the first time, she was ecstatic. She adored her little brother from the moment… Continue reading Brotherly (Not) Bonding
We all know that Facebook is basically the devil, right? For us stay at home moms, it's an unending supply of comparison (thief of joy) and self-improvement articles. Heck, even the blog posts "encouraging" young moms, the ones that are supposed to make you feel good, often make you feel very, very bad. "Tough day?… Continue reading I Didn’t Understand
Something I find myself saying nearly every day is, "Why is life so hard? Why is this so difficult?" Sometimes its brought about by a fight with one of my kids. Sometimes it's brought about by a can falling off a shelf. Big and little, nothing comes easily lately. So i find myself often uttering… Continue reading Held
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