i am looking out my office window at the tiny tree that was a stick shooting up from the ground when we moved here and is now a lovely tree five years later. this tree has my attention for a plethora ...
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When Words Fail
i have been at a loss for words. i have been changed. affected. altered. i'm not sure how to speak about what happened or what will happen from here on out and so i became frozen. my task was to keep ...
It’s What Holds Us Together
i will never tell you how many stores i have been to over the past week to complete the list of school supplies for my children, but i will say that there is nary a glue stick available in the entire ...
Take That, Martha Stewart
yesterday when parenting my cherubs this sentence was uttered: "it is okay if something is hard, it just means we have to work hard to get it right." after dropping them at school i thought about ...
Nailed It
before lent began i sat down and asked myself what are the things that i run to when i want to make myself feel better, that are not necessarily in my best interest? the answer was easy: social media, ...
Your Inner Llama
i've been thinking a great deal about the person that we dress up as and the person that we really are. the effort we are willing to go to to present this person we have created from a combo of ...
One Lump or Dooz?
recently nora may kept slipping while trying to run around the corner, which was kind of weird because she has somewhat mastered the chubby-tummed sprint. after investigating it turns out she had ...
Bravermans
after finishing the Parenthood finale let me just say that i began crying at around minute 5 when hank asked for zeke's blessing for their marriage. there are exactly 39429845629385203857 reasons to ...
Hazey’s Gonna Haze
when walking through the dining room on the way to do something awesome like refill a sippy or take the underwear and socks that seem to fall off my children as they are walking to bed to the hamper, ...
Leave The Books
it's an interesting thing about getting wounded. it makes you scared. it makes you fearful that you would put yourself in the line of fire again to become once again an identifier with that old friend ...