Tweet Eloise was two and a half when she moved out of her crib. This week she is 10 and I’m going to tell you a little secret and please don’t tell her that I told you this…but she won’t get out of bed without permission. Do you want to know why? Because on that…
Tweet I remember the last time I told my story. It was over a year ago and I was sitting next to Heather on a three hour airplane ride. She had her newborn nursing baby and her brilliance with her and I had my humor with me and together we made the flight go by…
Tweet I asked Eloise for a hug goodbye when I dropped her at a slumber party last night. I asked her for this hug especially because when she wakes up, not in our home, on December 2nd today and turns 10, well I won’t be there to hug her and tell her happy birthday. She…
Tweet I wasn’t going to link-up with MamaKat this week because life is crazy and I could not sit down and make thoughts become actual words on the screen. Or maybe I just didn’t have any thoughts at all. This happens sometimes when life is busy. You know those sometimes LIKE EVERYDAY EVER EVER there…
Tweet “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” ― Philip Pullman Eloise writes in her journal almost daily. Her thoughts are deeper than mine were at her age. I found my third grade diary and mainly found posts that said “Dear Dairy, Today we had peas again…
Tweet We were at book club this weekend and as we were making the slow walk to the foyer, you know to gather boots and coats and discuss our next meeting details and say our goodbyes, we all called to our kids who were using the last 15 minutes of the meeting wisely by running…
Tweet My Aunt loaned us her bird feeder a few years back. She was moving away and thought my girls would love watching the birds from our kitchen window. As lovely as the idea sounded, I knew there was a reason in my 40 years of living that I never yearned for a bird feeder…
Tweet One of the biggest concerns I have as a mom is teaching my girls to be self-confident. I have three daughters and everyday I hope I can reinforce how important it is to love who they are, be proud of who they are, be strong and always have courage. So when I find out…
Tweet Before I talk politics – I want to wish my dad a Happy Birthday and honor him with this photo taken in 1970 when Nixon was president. I love you dad and want you to know how lucky I am to be your daughter. You spoil me still in so many ways. Your love…
Tweet It’s come to my attention that based upon my last post you might just think that tween girls are all attitude having, bad fashion wearing, top 40 music listening, hormonal mall rats. And I’d like to correct this assumption. I mean yes they do fit those stereotypes well at certain points of…
Tweet So the first thing that I want to tell you is that my pants phase is over. Whew. It was a tough week. I mean I hadn’t shaved my legs for like three weeks and all with the swimsuit season finally coming to an end so I the pants were somewhat a necessity, but…
Tweet Esther was late coming out of school today. Cars were leaving one by one by one. The walkers were gone. The bike rack empty and still no Esther. Esther my early bird. I was just moments away from going in or sending Eloise in or all going in because it was starting to feel…
Tweet You know that old story about the man who goes to the doctor, moves his arms and says “It hurts when I do this” and the doctor responds with “Well stop doing that!” ..well that’s how I’ve been feeling lately about a lot of things. And then a very wise friend said to…
Tweet I never thought it would be like this. I made a pact with myself over a glass a wine that I would never let this happen. It was probably around that same time that I told myself that I would only cloth diaper, breastfeed for only six months, and never co-sleep. No, that…
Tweet Esther’s homework assignment was to make a contract with her teacher about what time she would commit to do her homework each day, for how long she will do her homework each day, and explain and draw a picture of where she will do her homework. It was a pretty easy assignment as…
Tweet I watched as Barack Obama became president in 2008. I watched with my daughters who were nearly 6 and 4 years old (and they didn’t have a baby sister). They watched these other beautiful young girls in awe as they stood with their father. The President. Those girls were 7 and 10 and looked…
Tweet A few weeks ago we were running out of the house quickly as we were late for an appointment. We had a string about of 30 days above 90 degrees so we were in our typical uniforms of ‘wearing as little as possible without getting arrested’ so when we stepped outside and felt the…
