January is being particularly January-ish this year. Cold, gray, snowy, icy, rainy, dreary,… long. Sometimes when the weeks stretch on without much sunlight or warmth, it’s hard to imagine spring or summer will ever return. If I’m not intentional about my reining in my thoughts, I can easily slip into despair over the whole situation. …
It’s a strange thing to have a blog where you share a part of yourself and your family with readers you may or may not know. What is private becomes public as much as I allow it to do so. And today I share what has been a private decision because I trust and love…
School started one week ago today. For ten whole years I’ve had at least one small person in my care for most of the week. So, this is strange and uncharted territory as I enter into a new season of parenting school-age kids. Of course, this picture had to pop up on Facebook this morning to remind…
Yesterday was the last full day of preschool for our Preschooler. This years marks our ninth consecutive year there, and it’s harder than I imagined it would be to close the door on this chapter of our lives. Not much about the specifics of my childhood overlap with that of our girls… except for this preschool. Way back…