Tag Archive ' parenting'

  it is time to give it back the little blue keyboard with the colourful keys that my little man called starbursts he had named each key after a member of our family when he was really little this one is baba, this one is mama, this one is… my girls had played with it…

We have been waking up to this song every morning this week: You’ve got all that emotion that’s heaving like an ocean And you’re drowning in a deep, dark well I ask the children to pick a song for the week.  It will be the soundtrack to which we get ready for the day.  My…

We celebrated the life of one of our children.  And we gathered a group of her sweet friends to celebrate with us. I wanted to celebrate each of their lives.  I wanted to speak truth over every single one of them.  So we decided on a Fearfully and Wonderfully Made Art Party. My little lady loved…

Some of our best conversations always seem to happen while I am driving… “Mama, when I grow up, I want to have a covered wagon.  Not a car,”  My Littlest Lady announces. “Okay, that would be fun,” I tell her. “I mean I am going to live on a farm in the mountains, you know,…

we are snuggled on the couch sandwiched together, more like.  Little Lady leaning into me;  Littlest Lady, on my other side, resting her head on my shoulder, her arm linked with mine, and Little Man, well, he is on my lap, squirming about, looking up at me, laughing, chattering, easing his way off my lap…