Category: Motherhood

This weekend, we celebrated Emil’s 4th birthday, attended the boys’ back to school family swim night (with very little swimming — it was pretty chilly!), played in the large green space down the street from our house… well, I read on a blanket while the boys tore around me in all directions playing frisbee and … Continue reading “Weekend Shenanigans”

Impish: (adjective) inclined to do slightly naughty things for fun; mischievous. “He had an impish look about him.” Emil: age 4 Today is Emil’s 4th birthday. He is, at four, sweet and funny and impish, but very much a people-pleaser. When someone expresses anger at him, he gets the saddest, most genuinely devastated look on … Continue reading “Emil is 4!”

Our weekend started early; thanks to Andrew’s arrival home to us and Oliver’s birthday, we had much to celebrate. I felt my mood lifting hour by hour, hug by hug, long conversation and laughing fit at a time. It may have been the funk of this summer or it may have been my deep longing … Continue reading “Weekend Shenanigans”

Happy, happy birthday to my dear sweet peach of a boy, Oliver. Six is going to be your year, I can feel it. You are on the verge of so many things! Over the past year, Oliver has matured in a way that I didn’t anticipate. He is compassionate, stubborn, determined, sensitive, and athletic. He … Continue reading “Oliver is 6!”

I laughed out loud at the vet’s office yesterday when the receptionist commented on how well-behaved my boys are. I hadn’t meant the little outburst of laughter; it had just slipped out, and as I glanced back at them, I nervously nodded in agreement. They were playing and reading quietly and politely while we waited … Continue reading “These Crazies”