September 1st was our twentieth wedding anniversary. Twenty feels so BIG. I’m not sure why it’s different than nineteen or twelve. Something just feels special about it. I’m guessing all the following “big” ones will feel the same. There is something magical and sweet about marriage. About having a person committed to you despite the moments of being your worst …
I spend the first week of school floundering to keep my head above water and hand in all of the forms. (My paperwork blog about says it all.) But how can I forget that the last week of school is equally traumatizing? Conversation like this ensue: The last week of school is out to get me. It knows I’m skating …
The way I imagine a school morning should go: 5:00 a.m. I wake up (without even needing an alarm) and write 3,000 words that don’t need to be edited or rewritten ten times. 7:00 a.m. I start a homemade breakfast for the kids, hiding pureed vegetables and coconut oil in the eggs. Not only do they not complain about the …
A few minutes into the movie Frozen, Prince Hans proposes to Anna even though they’ve just met. My husband leaned toward me and whispered, “that was fast.” My thoughts exactly. We don’t find out until later that Prince Hans is the bad guy, but I think most of us felt that check in our gut telling us something wasn’t right. …