We had a nice and simple birthday party for our newly minted 11 year old boy on Friday. After Brent managed to wrangle 7 boys and girls from school on the tram to come home, we all went swimming for a couple hours. A couple of near drownings and a crabby mommy later and we…
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Happy 11th Birthday Liam!
Dear Liam, It’s now been 11 years I’ve known and loved you. Each of those days I have been so grateful to be your mom and lay a path before you that I hope brings joy and safe space to become the young man you are destined to be. Last night we ate macaroni and…
Google Search History: Earring, nose, infection
I’m going to bed early tonight Mr. Reader. I can’t even. I won’t bore you with the details about my ‘highly spirited spar’ with Liam’s teacher this morning instead will try to capture one of those moments as a mom that leave your head just shaking with confusion…and probably lead to all my new grey…
A simple afternoon in the park
We explored a new park on Sunday. Brent and I are not exactly sure how it would be possible that we hadn’t been to Park De Tervuren before because it just isn’t that far from our house. It sits behind the African Museum which we have never been able to explore because it has been…
Merry Everything 2017
I’m facing the day…the Thursday between Christmas and New Year’s when the house is a mess and we are eating leftovers on some sort of repeat cycle. Anarchy rules have taken over our home with the Playstation in the living room and no adult claiming responsibility for monitoring screen time leaving my kids to walk…
Courage and Regret
Most mornings I walk Ellie to school. It is dark and cold and often rainy but it is also one of the best parts of my days. She doesn’t need me to walk with her but I think we both love our time together. We get to talk about what’s on tap for her day…
A week at home
It’s been nice to be home. I’m reminded how good it can feel to settle in and rejoin (or work on building) my community of friends. Last week was a busy one but in a social way! Monday- Family movie time…on a weekday! We are super rebellious like that. We found ourselves in a time…