Blessings
all I have
Tonight the air was still, snow fell, the fire burned, and I felt utterly small and stupid in the narrow little cocoon of my life. Tonight the sum of all my efforts thus far are two boys who wont shut up and a husband who has his own issues and a job I don’t (mostly) [...]
More Snapshots
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”–Annie Dillard Maple sugar on the first snow of the season… TEETH! Our advent wreath with a little twirly mobile from Germany (a childhood tradition.) Our first gingerbread house attempt this year. Bean cut out the templates and the dough. And mixed everything. [...]
Boys & simple delights
I always pictured this, and yet I could never have imagined how it really is: life with boys. My house is always a ruckus. Things are always flung, spun, twirled, jabbed. Sticks are essential. So are rocks. Forts are made everywhere. The couch is a launch pad. Trees are dangled from. Boxes are magic. They [...]

