Tweet I’ve started and deleted no less than 15 posts over the past two weeks. Not interesting. Stupid. Boring. Complaining. Sad. Silly. Badly written. No pictures. I’ve also not read anyone else’s blog posts during this time. Also, I had to make a doctors appointment for my kids. They need a camp physical done…
Tweet The rock I’ve been hiding under, or pushing through fields, up mountains, across oceans, and through arid deserts with my dear friends Vikki, Heather, and Galit, will finally arrive to the Twin Cities next Thursday. I can’t believe I’m saying those words – but yes, Listen To Your Mother will debut in Minneapolis on…
Tweet Listen To Your Mother Twin Cities happens in 10 days. TEN DAYS. So now it’s the little details that need to be completed. A million little details. So each and every single minute of every day I’m thankful for my partners in crime on this magical adventure. Do you all know how amazing Vikki,…
Tweet I sat down with Astrid’s preschool teacher today so she could walk me through the process on how the preschoolers are going to send a letter to a grandparent next week. “Did you not get the letter with the instructions?” She asked Yes, I got them. I just didn’t understand them..so I…
Tweet Sometimes I think that the end to all the world’s problems can come by just spending a day with a three year old. A well-fed and rested three year old of course, as tired and hungry ones are not fun. At all. Yesterday, Astrid set-up a tea party with 50 of her animals…
Tweet Astrid knows most of the lyrics to any Taylor Swift song. In fact she was up from 2am until 4am last night singing Trouble, Stay Stay Stay and We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. Sometimes the three songs became one long song of mixed-up lyrics, but that’s okay as the messages of…
Tweet I’ve written a lot lately about the importance of education, access to good health care, and how we as good neighbors and global citizens can make a difference in the world. The issues – crime, war, poverty, disease, death – seem so overwhelming sometimes that I see so many of us do nothing because…
Tweet We conclude our ‘This Is Childhood ” series today with TEN. And I’m all sad. Sad that this series is ending, and sad that my oldest is now TEN – and ten is so magical that I just want to freeze time NOW! Can we do that. It would make me ever so…
Tweet We are continuing our weekly This Is Childhood series today with NINE. Today, Denise shows us how incredibly beautiful NINE is. And it truly is. So far, for us, nine has been one of the best years. A year of fierce independence that comes along with lots of snuggles still. Nine is fine. …
Tweet Mrs. Anderson had a giant beehive hairdo. She wore crisp blouse, black thick heeled shoes, and cute, slim skirts that ended a few inches above her knee as was the style of the early 70s. She talked in a soft, welcoming and slightly ‘sing-songy’ voice and greeted her brood of five year olds each…
Tweet “So what did you think of the movie, Eloise?” I asked quietly as we exited the theater all holding hands, all three of us in a row – Eloise, me, and Esther. “You know, I would’ve liked this movie so much better if it was fiction.” Eloise responded very quietly, with her head…
Tweet Esther runs down the sidewalk towards me. Her ‘just off the bus’ look – disheveled braids, peanut butter dried on the side of her mouth, an off-center headband, a backpack sitting low and heavy off one shoulder, her skirt slightly turned to the side, the side-seam now showing in the front, worn-at-the-knees bright pink…
Tweet Astrid is slowly trying to kill me. My first two girls were beautifully agreeable to everything that I’ve ever said or asked them to do. Astrid(thankfully) has a mind of her own – and she’s not afraid to use it on any of us. She is the clear boss of the household and…
Tweet We are continuing our weekly This Is Childhood series today with SIX. I admit that Bethany blew me away a bit with her perfect post depicting SIX today. (Except for the Minecraft part – I still need to Google that to figure out what it means…;) Bethany nailed it. Nailed it. Six is…
Tweet “I want to hold the whole wide world..right here in my open hands.” – from the song ‘Whole Wide World’ by Mindy Gledhill Last Monday, I was part of a volunteer delegation of 100 men and women – bloggers, pediatricians, nurses, college students, from the US, hand-selected to be educated and advocate for…
Tweet Unless you are a parent, you probably do not have minivan envy. Because I had minivan envy. I had it really bad. Like an envy that would keep me up all night thinking about eight cup holders and under-floor storage kind of bad. So bad that I used to pretend that my SUV had…
Tweet Conversation from the couch… Eloise: Ohmygosh Astrid is that your butt I smell. Astrid: Probably, why? Eloise: Well that is just gross – I don’t want to smell that – go to the bathroom! Astrid: Well just stop smelling my gas then! Eloise: Well just making gas around other people! Astrid: Well just stop…
