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A Conversation With Harold, On My Front Porch

May 30, 2012 – 5:30 pm

Not feeling well I decided to sneak a quick nap in Sophie’s bed while she played in her room and the boys napped. I heard someone knocking on our front door and then the doorbell rang, despite our “please knock only” sign taped over it. I sighed heavily, hoping the boys wouldn’t wake. I was […]

By kara | Posted in All | Tagged death, front porch, Harold, neighbor | Comments (1)

I Spy

May 29, 2012 – 4:22 pm

A few days ago Sophie, Owen, James and Colleen received an e-mail from my mom—an I Spy game (can you spot the bumblebee?). I love that our children are able to play “I Spy” virtually, in my mom’s lavender garden. Now if only e-mail included scent. “I spy with my little eye …”

By kara | Posted in All | Tagged bee, colleen, computer, game, i spy, James, lavender, Nini, Owen, Sophie | Comments (0)

The Porter House (aka A Little Dream of Mine)

May 27, 2012 – 9:51 am

This is the post in which I confess my obsession with a house that (according to Andy) we will never buy. We don’t want or need to move. I love our house. I love our community. The schools are great, Andy’s commute to work is reasonable and we have many good friends here. But, from […]

By kara | Posted in All | Tagged dream, glendale, historic, home, porter house | Comments (15)

A Kind Soul

May 25, 2012 – 10:45 pm

I know, I know, I know Owen says “please” because we taught him to say “please” and that he says “bless you” after we cough or sneeze or clear our throats or make any noise that remotely sounds like it deserves a “bless you” because he thinks it’s funny. But still. When I refill Sophie’s […]

By kara | Posted in All | Tagged kindness, Owen | Comments (3)

Catching Rain Drops & Other Happy Things

May 25, 2012 – 10:06 pm

My best guess is that now that it’s near the end of spring and it’s supposed to be in the 90s this weekend, the universe realized we weren’t sick enough this past winter (and really, we luckily, were not) and so it’s making up for that now. Owen got pinkeye, too. This, however, transformed Sophie. […]

By kara | Posted in All | Tagged family, Nini, parenthood, rain, sick | Comments (0)

Pinkeye

May 20, 2012 – 9:24 pm

Somehow Sophie went from runny nose and cough to runny nose, cough, high fever and (a lot of) yellow gunk coming out of her eye. (This in addition to other runny noses, fevers and maybe-pinkeyes in the house right now.) Cue the Saturday evening call to the doctor and antibiotics prescribed over the phone. We […]

By kara | Posted in All | Tagged eyes, parenthood, pinkeye, sickness, Sophie, worry | Comments (2)

Work

May 18, 2012 – 10:02 pm

Sophie knows that Andy goes to work every day. And that he works on a computer every day. And that his work earns our family money every day. She attends a Montessori preschool and the word “work” is used often. So she also understands work as an activity she pulls off of a shelf and […]

By kara | Posted in All | Tagged editing, freelance, montessori, parenthood, Sophie, stress, work, workbooks, writing | Comments (2)

Water and Lavender

May 17, 2012 – 4:40 pm

A couple weeks ago, Sophie’s room was a mess. (Actually, Sophie’s room always seems to be a mess as of late but I’m talking about one particular day in which it was a mess, a couple weeks ago.) I had to shower. So I asked her to clean her room while I showered. Halfway through […]

By kara | Posted in All | Tagged bedroom, clean, lavender, mess, parenthood, Sophie, water bottle | Comments (2)

Happy 1st Birthday, Colleen

May 15, 2012 – 9:20 pm

It seems like it was only a few weeks ago I was driving, in the middle of the night, alone, to meet my first niece—to meet you, Colleen. And here you are! With your amazing Mama and Dada, eating a cupcake. I left my home with Nini and Pop Pop, after putting your cousin Sophie […]

By kara | Posted in All | Tagged birthday, colleen, family, Katy, North Carolina, tom, zoo | Comments (0)

A Bean Plant

May 8, 2012 – 9:45 pm

Some days I yearn for simplicity. The uncomplicated. The untroublesome. I stand in the kitchen for an entire minute, hands to my nose, simply taking in their scent after peeling a clementine. I watch the cardinals flit about our yard, branch to patio to chair to branch to deck and back to branch, looking for […]

By kara | Posted in All | Tagged bean plant, preschool, simple, Sophie | Comments (0)
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