When being a family feels like home

by | Jun 14, 2010 | Family, Kids, Marriage, Motherhood

The ceiling fan spins above us. Lazy but effective. It’s hot, humid, summer. And we are adrift in a big bed – the one with no frame or headboard. The one we’ve had thirteen years now. White sheets billow soft around us. Me and him. We share the sacred moment of the...

If I could, I would live in

by | Jun 11, 2010 | Family, Kids, Travel

the country and not the city. a house and not an apartment. a well weathered farm house and not a new build. upstairs not downstairs. on hard wood floors, not carpet or tiles. next to a corn field, not a lake. inland and not by the ocean (I think). OK, your...
He loves you more than chocolate milk

Learning to be OK with messy days

by | Jun 9, 2010 | Family, Kids, Motherhood

Some days your kid spits at the preschool director. Some days your kid who is supposed to be showing off how very ready he is for preschool flings pencils instead and declares, “You bad lady!” to the woman you had hoped he’d impress. Some days you...
If you’re feeling lost

If you’re feeling lost

by | Jun 7, 2010 | Faith, Family, Inbetween, Kids, Travel

I feel it in my hand. Gossamer fine, delicate thread. I hold it loosely to be sure I don’t snap it. I’m following it. Spiderweb-delicate strand, it leads me; it pulls me forward. Hand-over-hand I follow. Sometimes, in deep dark black nights I can’t...