in which i prove my crazy

Last night, I read/watched this post by Laura Frantz. In it, she describes how she recently discovered that her daughter associates each letter of the alphabet with a color. So I’m thinking, Doesn’t everyone do that? But when Laura seemed surprised about...

tuesday favorites

Because I’m working on this book, most of my writing energy goes into that. And so the blog gets the weary, wrung-out inspiration. Maybe I’m stating that which is painfully obvious. There is so much I have learned over the past five months while writing...

singing on a tuesday

It was a rare moment of him being cute combined with me saying yes. He isn’t always allowed to stretch out on top of the dining room table and sing. But he also won’t always be three. And so instead of moving him along, I sat down and watched. And of...

how the nester helped me see

This weekend, I was able to spend some time at my sister’s house with some friends, including Stephanie from (in)courage. This would be an appropriate place to put a picture of us, but I only took one and it was super blurry. Besides, when you are at The...
he reads, she reads

he reads, she reads

W e like books. We have stacks this high on our bedside tables. Part of that is because we read, but another part of that is because we don’t read. As in, we start but we don’t finish. He never reads fiction. As in, never. No time, ever does he read...