Snow under a microscope. I saw a post in one of the mom groups on social media today. A first-time mom was asking for advice…
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My little astronauts. I've been struggling with something lately and haven't been able to quite put it into words, but today I might have figured…
The little people turning all the felt ornaments around backward. There is so much magic in sharing Christmas with your little ones. Watching their eyes…
There’s a brilliant book by a man named Robert Fritz, and in it I found a fascinating insight: Behavior, like water, follows the path of…
[caption id="attachment_2291" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Celebrating buttoning her own shirt.[/caption] So there's a new thing in parenting now, that's topping "helicopter parenting". It's called "lawnmower parenting".…
This weekend at the writing retreat I attended, one of the exercises was to think about why we write. It's a question that I hadn't…
I went away this weekend. Three hours west, to the place where the southeast corner of Nebraska runs into the Missouri River. There's a town…
My three year old has charted her own course when it comes to growth and development. Early on it was pretty typical. She crawled at…
This last week, when spent some time thinking about this blog and why I do it, I found myself journaling about what this space actually…
If you had asked me when I started this blogging journey why I was doing it or what I had hoped to gain from it,…