Minding My Peas

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They come to me when I’m in the middle of packing for our camping trip. Close-cropped brown hair and bobbed sandy brown above chocolate eyes and gray-brown galaxy eyes. Wide chocolate eyes and sparkling galaxy eyes above radiant smiles. “Want to take a walk Mama? Want to go to the…

Nights Belong to Mamas

May 4, 2021 Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

Nighttime belongs to mamas. Those quiet, dark hours of solitude become familiar to us, from the first hours after a baby is laid in our arms, but not limited to those early days. Each new season of motherhood is welcomed by the chime of a night-time clock. We grow accustomed…

Reaching Roots

March 24, 2021 Creative Writing Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

Writing is something I have always done. I’ve always loved it, whether I’ve been writing mostly terrible fiction, or muddling my way through prose, or attempting children’s books. I still want to write. My mind is busy with half-glimpsed projects, and images that demand capture. I have never felt both…

2021 Reading Challenge: February Update

March 2, 2021 Reading Challenge No Comments

Did February fly by or what?! I cannot believe we’re starting into March already. The end of this month marks the first quarter of the year, and I’m very motivated to see good progress on my reading challenge. This year, the biggest change I’ve made in how I’m making sure…

Brushing Off The Dust

February 19, 2021 Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

Hello there, reader. It has been a while. I’ve been nursing the idea of coming back to regular blog posts, and trying to imagine a way to do it gracefully. In the end, there’s nothing for it but to sit down and start writing. It’s the only way to push…

2020 Reading Challenge – July and August

September 20, 2020 Reading Challenge No Comments

August was a month for the history books. Writing them, not reading them. We started school, traveled out of state for a wedding, and spent several days in the hospital finding out that our youngest child, Sieg, has Type 1 Diabetes. The last four weeks have been a legitimate blur.…

2020 Reading Challenge: June Recap

July 7, 2020 Reading Challenge No Comments

This summer is just flying by! I’m pretty sure I’m going to blink, and July will be over and we’ll be starting school again. I admit, I thought I was going to accomplish a lot more blogging and writing over the summer than I actually have, but this is just…

2020 Reading Challenge: May Recap

June 10, 2020 Reading Challenge Uncategorized No Comments

Wow, I just get later and later at posting this as the year goes on. So much for summer being less busy! Despite my lateness, May wasn’t a bad reading month. I finished 14 books which has me officially over halfway through my reading goal for this year and, perhaps…

2020 Reading Goals: April Recap

May 8, 2020 Reading Life No Comments

I think this is the latest I’ve done one of my reading updates, but this month has been crazy already! We’re almost done with school though, so I’m hoping I’ll get to be back to some regular posting through the summer. April was an okay reading month for me. I…

Sophia Louise, Age 8

April 14, 2020 Uncategorized No Comments

Somehow, and I don’t know quite how it happened, I’ve been a mother for 8 years. The girl who made me a mama is still the greatest ray of sunshine to us. She is brilliant, funny, helpful, sweet and responsible. She is definitely the ringleader amongst her siblings, but they…