Beautiful Chaos
Someday, I’ll miss the inevitable post-bed time, “I want a glass of water!” and, “There’s something under my bed!” and, “One more story pleeeeease?”
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Raising Kids In A Lowering World
I’m a mother to an 8-year-old girl and I’m really concerned about what the world is telling her. (I have no son, but I know they’re also faced with mixed messages and poor role models on a daily basis.) My little girl wakes up wanting to shine. She wants the world to see her beautiful…
Not Such A Tough Mudder
Little girl got rather muddy playing outside. I mean, mud inside her boots as well as outside, and all over hands and face. “That’s okay,” I say to her at the back door as she’s throwing her clothes in a muddy pile for the laundry. “You’re a kid. Kids are supposed to get dirty,” surprising…
Taking the LEAP
American writer and poet Jamie Dedes, a former columnist and features writer, reviewed ‘Leap’ today in her Saturday Review series. I’m thrilled with her well-written, informative review (and tickled she’d put Anne Murray, k.d. lang, and Mark Vonnegut in the same sentence as my name) and wanted to share parts of it with my readers…
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The Mommy Monitor
She: What’s a Baby Monitor? Me: It’s something people use to make sure the baby isn’t getting into any trouble. She: We need to get you a Mommy Monitor. ‘Mommy monitor’author heather grace stewartbaby monitorcartoonFamily Lifefunny things kids sayKids
To Infinity, and the Bus!
From the moment she could talk, our daughter was telling us how she was going to take the “Big kid bus” on her first day of school. At first, she’d surf along the back of our sofa, peer out our front window, and point at it with a near-toothless grin. “Bus! Bus!” she’d call out…
