I love this season of innocence. Even when it’s not so jolly. This weekend we cut down our Christmas tree and I was reminded of the look on Owen’s face in a picture I took last December, a picture I now love. I was reminded of how hard things were mid-December, last year. How un-jolly […]
The boys didn’t nap today, which doesn’t make any sense because they didn’t sleep well last night. The weather, however, was thankfully, unusually warm so right about the time we were all ready to kill each other we put on our shoes and coats and walked to the small park down the street. We were […]
“A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today included: • breakfast at a table that also held a daffodil in a glass baby food jar • short sleeves, no jackets • muddy knees (for everyone) • open windows next to diaper pails • the dreary work of clearing out last summer’s sad leaves from budding beds • a long-awaited inaugural ride on the shiny, new, pink (why […]
This morning started off like most mornings in our house. I was upstairs getting some baby wipes when Sophie ran to the bottom of the stairs and screamed, “James is peeing all over Tucker!” I found this statement to be odd because (1) I had left James in his high chair, (2) James was wearing […]
Venturing into the world of make-believe is much more fun with a friend. “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.” —Dr. Seuss
“Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” —Aldous Huxley
