When life gets too busy, I have some very clear signaling devices. Their names are Sarah and Jade. Well, those are their internet names, anyway.
Here’s something I wrote in an email to a long-distance friend this morning:
I’ll try to call today, but I’m also going to try to be more present with my girls today [...]
Filed in: family • parenting • self-reflection | October 8, 2009
So homeschooling.
Me.
Right.
Here’s the thing: I was completely, adamantly, 100% NOT going to homeschool. It was not even CLOSE to being something I wanted consider. It’s just not something I ever thought I would enjoy; patience is not a virtue I possess in great abundance, and of course, I wouldn’t want to make my kids [...]
Filed in: family • home education | September 30, 2009
Can you tell why I made such a good decision eight years ago?
Happy Anniversary, Love.
Filed in: family | September 23, 2009
I am delighted that our family is getting old enough to have absolutely hilarious conversations. Oh, it is wonderful, and I can only imagine it will become more and more so as our children pass through different developmental stages.
I wish I could remember all these gems so I could record them, and I especially wish [...]
Alright all you beautiful ladies who know so much more about being fashionable than I do. (That would be ALL of you.)
Do you see how I’m growing fur around my hair line?
What do I do about that? It is my hair growing back in, after it fell out in gobs postpartum. I’ve been [...]
I said to my mother-in-law the other day, “I think Jade has had a complete personality shift since Carrie was born.” Her response, while witnessing my once mild, accomodating, agreeable child running wildly around the room, emotions high-strung, and thrashing/swinging/hitting anyone in range if she got the least bit frustrated?
“Yes.”
Her conclusion is that Jade [...]
Filed in: child development • family • parenting | September 8, 2009
I actually own The Case Against Competition but haven’t had a chance to read more than the first few pages of it, and even that was several years ago.
I don’t have any hard and fast opinions on competition, not having studied it much at all, but on the surface, I my views are pretty [...]
Filed in: child development • family • parenting | August 11, 2009
My six-year-old learned how to ride a bike today!
She can’t quite get started on her own yet, and she stops very gracefully by steering onto the grass and smoothly falling over, but this is mostly due to the fact that, even with the seat lowered all the way, she still barely scrapes the ground [...]
Filed in: child development • family • home education | August 4, 2009
Why am I always so busy? Despite my efforts, we still always seem to be running around like a bunch of little headless chickens.
Today I planned to:
Go to the library.
Make some bracelets with the girls.
Attend a family picnic with a local homeschool group.
But throw in a few extra meals, baking bread, putting people down for [...]
Little Carrie has a bit of redness in the diaper area, and Matt was lamenting over it as he changed her. I asked him if we maybe we should start doing Elimination Communication–where you teach even tiny babies to let you know when they need to pee or poop so you can “catch” it in [...]
Filed in: family | July 16, 2009