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You speak for you, I speak for me
The internet is where I found My People. I found the ones happy to communicate via text and not over the phone. The ones more comfortable with blogging their feelings than having in-person heart-to-hearts. I found a best friend, and people with whom I can commiserate. I found support, love, and education here. This world
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I’ve got the stay at home mom blues
I’ve spent the last 2,731 days as a stay-at-home mom. For awhile, I was an on-maternity-leave mom, and for awhile I was a work-at-home mom (while I had various businesses), and now I’m a part-time-freelance-writing-and-blogging-stay-at-home mom. But basically, I’ve been a SAHM as my primary role is the care of my kids, and the maintenance
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In praise of selfies
I think what the selfie has given us is the ability to share about ourselves what we most want the world to see in us. Our best side, best angle, best lighting, best pose, best moment. Our best life, presented in small snippets, bite-size portions of what we wish our life looked like always. It
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What I see
The way your lips curl ever-so-slightly when you smile. The way your hands clasp together so gently when you sit patiently waiting. Sometimes you tap your fingers against your hands, sometimes picking cuticles. How your eyes look in the afternoon sunlight, with golden slivers around blackest-black pupils. The dimples in your knuckles, on soft hands.
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Easy Valentine’s Day Treats
This is a repost of the treats I made last year. Enjoy! Rice Krispie Heart Pops Whatcha need: 1 heart-shaped cookie cutter 10 candy sticks 13x9x12-inch pan, greased Rice Krispie treats 4tbs butter 1tsp pure vanilla extract 40 regular-sized marshmallows 6C Rice Krispies cereal For the chocolate coating 1.5C Merckens pink chocolate melts 1tbs virgin
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DIY Snowglobes
My incredibly talented friend Sarah posted about DIY snowglobes awhile ago, and I finally got organized enough to make them! I wanted to make them with my Brownie Unit, so I made a few beforehand to be sure I was getting things done properly. I learned some things. Ha. What you need • jar with
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Once upon a time, I asked you all for a favour…
I’ve written some first lines for children’s books, but I’m not sure which direction to head in first, so I could use your help. I promise that one day there will be something very special in it for you. (Other than my most sincere appreciation, of course.) Below I’ve listed five starting lines to books I
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Life as a lyric
It was much like peeking through the lace of a sheer window curtain, barely moving in the late spring breeze, constantly searching from behind a wall of assumed anonymity. Glancing sideways, with trepidation. As a child, I’d watch them play outside and wish someone would ring the bell but dread the bell ringing because it
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Mother, Mother
There are the words I don’t want to say. They are the things I do not want to talk about. When I look around and realize that there is nobody who understands what it feels like to think I know my own story, only to be told it is nothing like I had thought. I
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The power of, “I’m sorry” and other life tips
The only things I really want to ingrain into my kids are compassion, kindness and tolerance. If they want to become world-renowned physicists? Cool. If they decide to wait tables at the local Swiss Chalet? A-ok. If they’re not sporty or can’t paint a picture or don’t want to speak in public, whatever, that’s fine.
