12 Nov 2012

To all the heroes – yes you, the ones up to your elbows in ordinary

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We all want a hero. I grew up on a diet of popcorn and stories and the days my mom took me out of school to go to the movies were the ones I learned to fly. Stories are still my safe place. We all want a hero to stand on a stage or a white horse or a battlefield or a football field or a bridge and declare to the darkness, “you shall not pass.” We want to believe keep reading…

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28 Jun 2012

Motherhood: where participation beats presentation every time

Motherhood participation beats presentation

I look around our cluttered playroom and tell myself when it looks like the ones I’ve seen on Pinterest I’ll start a list of fun projects for the kids. I look at my kitchen and tell myself when I can find the Tupperware lids and have invested in some decent pots and pans I’ll get better at planning meals and cooking with my kids. I look around our backyard and tell myself when we’ve pulled up that corner of weeds keep reading…

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27 Mar 2012

When they ask you what you did today

“So,” he asks me. “What did you do today?” And I think about lists checked off and conference calls and the crock pot I had to run through the dishwasher and still rinse out by hand. I think about the four rooms that I vacuumed and the EBook cover design I’m excited about. I think about a small garden in a ceramic tray the boys helped me plant and four loads of laundry. I think about 8 diapers and two keep reading…

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