Motherhood

  • You Can Trust Me

    You Can Trust Me

    I always get up early hoping for a few quiet minutes before my children wake up. I’m usually successful at the waking up early part but rarely successful at the getting ahead of my kids part. They fully endorse Anna’s words in Frozen: “The sun’s awake so I’m awake.” And so they are, every morning at

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  • For the Love of Rain Boots and Words

    I miss writing and telling stories. The last few years really sucked the creative energy out of me and somewhere along the way, I decided I don’t have anything to say — anything worth saying, worth reading, anything that hasn’t already been written or read. Be that as it may, I miss words and stories.

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  • Within Reach

    Within Reach

    I realized yesterday that my children just assume I can always hear them. I can be on a different floor on the other side of the house and they will start a conversation with me just the same as if I were sitting across the couch from them. Yelling a conversation through the house does

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