Owen and James always have bruises on their heads. They climb up on everything. And fall. Yesterday, Sophie yelled to me from the dining room, “MOM! Owen’s on top of the dining room table!” And he was. We now keep the kitchen chairs on top of the kitchen counter. Otherwise, James and Owen will work [...]
Yesterday I couldn’t wait for my Motherlode essay to be posted. But today, with comments that include the words “maudlin,” “trite,” “annoying” and “over the top,” I simply wanted the editor to post something else already so maybe the comments would stop. This is not a post seeking praise. I was overwhelmed with kind words from [...]
The New York Times Motherlode blog is one of my favorites. Monday I read three essays on Motherlode (Daughter, Rising by Pam Allyn; Pay It Forward by Melissa T. Shultz and Silence is Golden by Karin Kasdin) about sending your child off to college. These essays made me think about Sophie, who will be starting [...]
Andy had an early softball game tonight so the kids and I met him there to cheer him on. And by cheer him on I mean I tried to catch him at bat at least once while watching Sophie climb all over the bleachers and feeding tiny cut-up grapes (dinner) to the boys. Schmidt Field [...]
“And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.” —D.H. Lawrence
The boys can climb up on the couch now. Without help. They are extremely proud of this feat. (Sophie never did this.) For a couple days I lined the front of the couch with pillows. But then Tucker just used them as a dog bed. So I stopped putting the pillows down figuring a couple [...]
About a month ago my good friend Shruti was in town from Texas, along with her husband, Arun, and their two beautiful children, Rashmi and Naveen. So we, along with my good friend Aimee and her husband Jon, met at Keehner Park. Shruti’s brother Uday and his wife Alisa also were in town and [...]
For months I’ve been wanting to switch my blog from Blogger to WordPress for many reasons and last night, all thanks to my husband, we did. Now it should be much easier to comment directly on my blog, which, according to those who are much better at building their readership than I am, is important. [...]
I took this picture of Owen mid-July and, looking back through my blog, realized I took almost the same picture of Sophie when she was about Owen’s age. (Owen, in general, is a little more frantic.) You can read about it here. Now, of course, it’s times two. (And some days, times three.) “The quickest [...]
Two nights ago Sophie helped us make an apple pie, which took an hour to cook. As such, she got to stay up past her bedtime because we decided it would be cruel to have her help make a pie, smell the pie while it’s cooking and then not be allowed to eat it. Because [...]
