B and I recently started reading the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The first book, "Little House in the Big Woods," describes in detail Laura and her family's life in a log cabin in Wisconsin in the late 1800s. Wolves and panthers and...
Miles, your personality matches your hair: wild, bold, unpredictable, unique, luminous. You are someone who at once loves order and chaos. You make the biggest messes and enjoy tidying them up. You crave freedom and boundaries. You are snuggly and fierce. When you were a baby,...
Sometimes when I look at just her eyes or the cute upturn of her nose, or when I focus on her pink bowtie lips, I am transported back. I see her infant face gazing back at me, the same one that I cradled and nursed...
Last June, when we were driving home from Mexico, I looked out the window and saw something truly special. You'd think I was a kid passing by an amusement park the way I yelled and begged Kris to stop the car. He stopped...
How I pictured B's first swim meet: She's the youngest, so I assumed she'd probably finish last in each race, but I hoped there wouldn't be a huge gap between her and the other finishers. I wanted her to feel like she belonged on the...
In iPhone photos:I started the week in Winthrop, WA and ended back home, longing for fall weather, enjoying the kids' antics, aching for loved ones in Colorado who are flooded out of their homes, and just marveling at the extremes of climate and landscape in...