It is no small thing to talk about the child who made me a mother at age 24. Isaac’s cries, his coos, his giggles, his feet plumping up, taking one tentative step then another- these were the things that ushered in my adulthood. They were the soundtrack playing while I became more patient, a bit [...]
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For Isaac’s Confirmation
Posted in faith, family, honesty, mommy blogging, motherhood, mothering, teaching, teen, writing, tagged first born, Mothering, oldest child, Teenagers, young mother on 06/02/2012 | 1 Comment »
7 Quick Takes Friday (vol 5)
Posted in 7 Quick Takes Friday, family, marriage, updates on 10/17/2009 | 2 Comments »
7 Quick Takes is Hosted By Jennifer at Conversion Diaries. She is awesome. 7 Very Quick Takes, Getting Late on a Friday 1. Ha, hilarity! I dreamt I agreed to write a 50,000 word novel next month & told a bunch of people on the Internet about it! Oh, wait…. 2. Believers and skeptics, what [...]
Weekend Math, I’m better at this than I thought.
Posted in art, board games with kids, family, math, New York on 06/09/2009 | 6 Comments »
aX = aYWhere a = 10 year old sonand X = dad is away at MOCCANY for weekend,and Y = dad’s copy of Bone. aY + b = potential family disasterwhere b = pancake syrup in a diner, plus 2 younger brothersaY + c = aY-b =I am a protector of the arts and world [...]
7 Quick Takes Friday (vol 4)
Posted in 7 Quick Takes Friday, board games with kids, family, friendship, Goodness, I love the blogosphere momosphere on 05/30/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another round of 7 Quick Takes, hosted by Jennifer! 1. Birth I just got back from a pretty short birth. I can’t share too much, but I will say that the mom shares a name with a Disney character with red hair and a fish tale. My children believe I a birth doula to mer-mommies [...]
7 Quick Takes Friday (vol 4)
Posted in 7 Quick Takes Friday, board games with kids, family, friendship, Goodness, I love the blogosphere momosphere on 05/30/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another round of 7 Quick Takes, hosted by Jennifer! 1. Birth I just got back from a pretty short birth. I can’t share too much, but I will say that the mom shares a name with a Disney character with red hair and a fish tale. My children believe I a birth doula to mer-mommies [...]
And just like that
Posted in family, loss, the fall, your two year old child on 10/15/2008 | 16 Comments »
Two years ago tomorrow, I started this blog. And just like that two years go by. I did actually start it one day after the anniversary date of the day we tragically lost a pregnancy with a girl child who would have been 2 years younger than our Thinker. Two years ago, I was coming [...]
Olympic Top Ten
Posted in family, my sister Jen gets blogged about, olympics, television on 08/12/2008 | 16 Comments »
Top 10 things I happen to know thanks to inheriting a little known gene that makes a person olympically obsessed. 10. If you want to win a swimming event, you must do something called put your head down. The swimmer must also be doing well at the split, make the most of the push of [...]
So, I think I’ve mentioned that we are moving again
Posted in family, home and garden, moving on 07/02/2008 | 6 Comments »
Yes, I have, a few times. I think I may processed why I am not writing about that more. It is after all pretty big and exciting news. But, at least on this blog & also in my mind, I haven’t had much time to plant here. We are really quite happy (aside from the [...]
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