Two years ago Sunday my mother exited this earth. I’d be a fool to not recognize all the growing I’ve done in this time and all the ways my family has been blessed despite this heartbreak, but…I MISS HER. I make up fantasies about her, making her into something she never had a chance to […]
For the Love of the Boy
I was raised as a gal’s gal. In a family of two girls, my gentle father didn’t have much of a shot at perpetuating a rough and tumble boys’ world. I happily enjoyed a house filled with multiple cans of hairspray and thought the whole world watched Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman on Saturday nights. Wait, […]
I Just Want to Be Alone–WITH The Bees
Friends, I eked my way into another book! The title of this book, I Just Want to Be Alone, is so gloriously appropriate, I considered ending my post by just sharing it’s name with you. I think it speaks for itself?? But then I remembered this was a prime opportunity for me to lament about […]
May All the Hands Be Raised
Source Yes! I can hear you! Not hearing well is hard. As an adult, I can mostly work around it; I fantasize about a groovy new set of hearing aids I hope to someday claim and annoy my husband by endlessly asking him to repeat himself in the meantime. But as a kid? It just […]
Productive Parenting and Strider Bikes? Yes please!
I’m excited to be teaming up with Productive Parenting and Strider Bikes to bring you an awesome (free!) app that you’re going love – and a chance to win one of five Strider Bikes! Thousands of Activities for Kids! Productive Parenting has been around for years – offering fast and simple activities that you can […]
Finding Yourself, Frugie-Style
On Wednesday, I shared with you why appreciating beautiful things is important to me (aka how I justify buying the “good” mascara to my husband). The HUGE PART I left out is my gratitude to Rebecca of Frugalista Blog for being part of this process. You see, Frugie has become a mentor to me. Moreover, she […]
Beautiful Things
Several months ago, something weird happened. Very weird. I started to care about myself. It wasn’t a sudden, overwhelming recognition that Meredith, outside of sippy cup provider and snotty nose wiper, existed, but it was more a dull thud of a reminder that some part of her was still hanging around somewhere. The thud grew […]
Game Plan for The Games
One of my happiest memories of our early marriage is holing up in the bedroom of our first apartment watching the Olympics. We channeled in The Games by carefully positioning the rabbit ears “just so”. As long as we didn’t move or breathe too emphatically, NBC came streaming in with only a teensy bit of […]
The Two Cards
We’re simple people around here. Before kids, Valentine’s wasn’t that huge of a deal. Now? Like any parent knows, step aside major holidays, because there is an exorbitant display of glitter-glued heart-shaped cards that need to squeeze their way onto the fridge before it gets ugly. Put down the red construction paper before Mommy gets cranky. […]
Mrs. Stapleton
Every once in a while you get to meet a soul who breaks your heart with sincerity and kindness. Paige Stapleton, more familiarly known around my corner of the world as Mrs. Stapleton, was one such person. Mrs. Stapleton was my son’s first preschool teacher. When my family set off last year to enter the […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 99
- 100
- 101
- 102
- 103
- …
- 162
- Next Page »
