This is my first official portrait taken with my two children. Why did I wait so long?! Last Saturday we lucked out with a beautiful afternoon and spent our time together in the competent and amazing...
I’m taking an amazing class called “Simplicity Parenting” and I love it. It’s really made me think about all aspects of my parenting and the message’s I want to send to ...
I had not been this sick in a long long time. Even though today was the most energy I’ve had since last Thursday I still came back home from the morning errands and went to sleep for 2.5 hour...
I want my mommy. I’m sick and I’m a mom, and I totally really want my mom. I want someone to “mother” me. What is it to “mother?” I think it’s to inherently ...
This is an amazing watch… let yourself be inspired. Have a great weekend!!! Happy Easter! If I Should Have a Daughter.
Today is a big day The Revelation Project is on Parentables from TLC ( Discovery Networks)! If you care to go, read, comment and “share” with your friends I’d be one happy camper. M...
Clearly I am on a poetry kick. It does not help however when your AWESOME readers send you more AWESOME poems to read and review…. ahem. You know, I have to say that I write a lot about heart ...
So, I’m not really sure when i started loving poetry but i think it was around the time I was at a loss for complete sentences to describe what was happening – so…. pregnancy perhap...
Mr. Goodbar wants me to go through my photo’s today and par down. He says that I especially have too many photo’s of our cats. I disagree. strongly. It’s important that I document...
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The Bird Nest by Linda Apple This poem by Mary Oliver has been near and dear to my heart since I first came upon it in the book : Ten Poems to Set You Free. Before I was finally able to find the cou...
At dawn (6am) my son woke me up to remind me that we would sit on the couch together. He would do his thing, and I would do mine. I get up each morning at this time to do some light meditation, jou...
I was in Providence yesterday at an appointment on Wayland Square so I figured I’d “drop in” at the local Whole Foods. Fifteen items later I was going through check out when the ca...
Ear Muff It. My friend Jackie wrote about this experience while listening to the radio with her son on the way to school. *Sigh* – Sometimes I feel so helpless as a mom to protect my kids from ...
Today I lost my son, and his play date. They were just going to the basement to play… one minute I saw their small forms heading that way and 15 minutes later when I went down the basement to s...
There are no winners in wars; only losers. Both sides in any conflict suffer losses. The question is not who won the most but who lost the least. Everyone suffers in war. everyone, including those w...
Reblogged from Be Anything But Quiet!: The last thing I want to do right now is write this blog. It has been one of the hardest weeks of my life, and I just want to curl up under my favorite blanket ...
I hate politics, and feel pretty much the same way as five year old Hudson Hinkley Does “YUCK!” But if you want to grab my attention as a mom and get me to listen in- start talking to me ...
Reblogged from Be Anything But Quiet!: I don’t have a lot to say today, but I wanted to leave you with something. A dear friend who is currently overseas sent me this quote the other day, so I ...
About a month ago I played a Michael Jackson tune for the kids. They were immediately hooked and seemed to know right away …they knew that they were listening to one of the world’s grea...
Life is moving right along. I can’t believe i’ve already been in the new house for almost three months. I’ve been dabbling in cooking again… (no, not taco’s) just a bit...
Before..... It’s not even 5:00 yet and there’s no wine in the house. Is it age? or am I just getting blonder as my roots go darker? I just calmed myself down from the upsetting incident ...
It’s the little things. A bowl of raspberries with a whipped cream top. Cut out hearts. Heart felt cut outs. A handmade paper rose can smell like two dozen on a summers day. Subtle touches-a li...
I spent my night last night re-reading the many love letters my Father sent to my Mother while he was in Vietnam. It’s so wonderfully bazaar to have access to those- and that time period in th...
I was almost Twenty-one the September my Father passed away. Dr. Joseph Augustine Grady was born in Massachusetts in 1921 (is my math correct?) He was Fifty when I was born. I’m feeling especi...
As a parent, I have to say that I am often completely out of my comfort zone when it comes to discipline as a practice. How to discipline effectively, compassionately, and firmly. I’ve been a...
Shaw Age 2 There are those days as I wait for the kids to return from a weekend away with dad, when I physically ache for them. The best part of any divorce is that you get a break. The worst part o...
Sometimes people challenge me about why I blog… i kind of put some distance between this post and the event but today something similar came up so I went back to the draft on this post and I...
Sunlight by Christian Bothner It’s a beautiful day. I wonder when winter will arrive in New England but I am not going to complain. The winter used to scare me – a few years ago I was so ...
The finger is healing up. Now it just feels like a massive callous and kind of “thick” where the stitches are. It’s pretty gross. I’ve decided I don’t much like stitch...
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