This month is always significant for our family. We pack a lot of emotion and celebration into October. And typically I can’t wait to add to the frenzy with a visit to a farm for a hayride, painted pumpkins, fall-themed birthday parties, and a fall scene on the front porch. But this year our pace…
I love to travel, but I always struggle with re-entry on the other side of the trip. Since we moved in June, this is even more of an issue now because coming “home” feels strange. Where even is home exactly? Over the holiday weekend we went to the beach for the first time in quite…
I am more nostalgic than ever lately. Maybe it’s because good memories are a balm in seasons of hard change. Or maybe it’s because the world news is painful to watch, and the past feels safer. Whatever the reason, I love the sights, and sounds, and scents of anything old and familiar right now. A…
It has been seventeen months since all three of my kids have simultaneously gone to school in a real building. Now as they get geared up to head back to classrooms in a new city and we all establish some new routines in the next few weeks, I feel a familiar tightness settling into my…