Category Archives: Everyday Things
LOCK-OUT
For the past month or two, I’ve had a growing sense of concern nipping at the back of my mind that I may have lost the key to our screen porch door lock. And by lost I mean put it in a very special place that I could no longer remember, for safekeeping over the winter. And by [...]
OUR DISCLAIMER
Please be especially nice to us Minnesotans right now. Yes, we might be a little extra crabby lately. Or confused. Disoriented. We might wander off in the middle of a sentence now and then. We might be downright whiny. But that's because here we are...
Also posted in Hard Things, Ranting Tagged Cold, depressing, GRACE, Spring, weather, winter 4 Comments
GUESS WHAT I FOUND
It's all enough to make this first-born, type-A, straight-A, single-momming, self-employed girl want to hole up, buckle down and take care of things. Make things better. Fix things. Soothe things. Prevent things. Get things done. Check things off the list. All while clenching her fists and holding her breath until maybe, someday, the list will be a little less long and the needs a little lighter.
Also posted in Finding, Hard Things, Healthy Things, Junking, Noticing, Single-Momming, Wise Things Tagged Breaks, Breathing, Busy, Hunt & Gather, life, Refreshing, SELF-CARE 4 Comments
I. CAN’T. TAKE. MUCH. MORE.
It is officially spring, and yet, here we sit. Locked in a world of ice and snow and frigid cold. Covered in frost..... Help!
NEW HEIGHTS
The other night, on the edge of the closet door in R-boy’s room (which used to be R-girl’s room), we discovered that R-girl is just a hair away from meeting her goal. Or one of her goals, that is: To be as tall as me (or taller), which is somewhere in the vicinity of 5’11″. [...]
Also posted in Chuckling, Growing, Kid Things, Noticing, Parenting, Random Things Tagged Goals, HEIGHT, R-girl, Tall Leave a comment
LUMPY
It’s the word a certain daughter in my house may or may not have said to me last night. “I feel lumpy.” I think that sentence was immediately followed by something like, “Ugh.” And a lifeless flop onto the bed. Which is weird. Because I honestly don’t think I’ve ever said that sentence to her. [...]
Also posted in Chuckling, Noticing, Parenting, Random Things, Wise Things, Wording Tagged Coincidence?, Feelings, Rhino 2 Comments
DINNER PARTY
At some point this weekend, there was talk of how sharing a meal [breaking bread] together is both exceptionally ordinary and beautifully sacred Not ordinary at all To raise a glass together To sit knee to knee or thigh to thigh together To experience hunger and then flavor and then fullness together It says something [...]
Also posted in Fooding, Heart Things, Noticing, Raving, Wise Things Tagged chili, Dinner, Emily, friends, sharing 2 Comments
WRITING IT DOWN
Somewhere back toward the beginning of this blogging journey, I typed up a post about the specific kind of journal (and pen) that I was loving most at the time. Three years and six journals later, that opinion hasn’t changed. Although a lot of other things have. Particularly, the things filling those journals. Thank God. [...]
Also posted in Beautiful Things, Cool Things, Finding, Growing, Hard Things, Healing, Heart Things, Noticing, Raving Tagged GROWTH, Journaling, life, Miss Sarah, Wisdom Leave a comment
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