Tweet I think I’m depressed. You know that feeling of pouring your complete heart, soul, body and mind into something for many months… ..and then it happens. Which means it’s over. And then you wonder what to do with yourself the next day. And the next. And the next. When all you…
Tweet My days start early. Some earlier than others. I’ve always been an early riser as I’ve followed my parent’s habits of rising before the sun and putting the coffee maker on a timer the night before. I fear my kids are following my example. Sometimes I don’t think that Eloise sleeps at all….
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’m writing this for Jana’s Stream of Consciousness Sunday – so it shall be brief. ****** Esther continued to be sad about her coins. Strangely, it did not dawn on me to actively pursue finding another Canadian One Cent Coin for her. Life went on as Tuesday turned to Wednesday and there was dance,…
Tweet We are less than a month away from the inaugural Listen To Your Mother Twin Cities show! Seriously, so if you don’t see me writing very much over the next few weeks it’s because we are getting ready to put on an amazing show for you all as we celebrate Mother’s Day! I hope…
Tweet Jed and I are going out on a date tonight. It’s been nearly five years since our last one, and that one truly didn’t count because I was pregnant..very early pregnant..and very sick. I ended up throwing up my dinner before we even left the restaurant. Our reservations were for 6pm and I was…
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 It’s nearly noon and I am showered and dressed but haven’t put on make-up or made an effort to brush my hair. My feet are bare and cold and the breakfast dishes sit in the sink. I’m not sure what the kids ate for breakfast. I think I saw Eloise pour some cereal,…
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 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 I just locked my children in a closet. Well one is at a birthday party, one is reading on the couch, and one I may have put in her room and shut the door behind her and told her to play with anything- really just anything- for 15 minutes so I could get something…
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 We are continuing our weekly This Is Childhood series today with EIGHT. Today, Amanda shows us eight. Eight is great, if I may. Yet eight is spreading those wings even further with the fight between childhood and teen-dom. And Amanda writes eight beautifully. It all seemed so much simpler when you were a…
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 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…
