Most parents who read aloud to their children know this picture. I’m not sure why, but running and flipping onto the couch as soon as it’s time to “cuddle up” for a story is an unbreakable routine. Actually, cuddling rarely happens. Reading aloud is mostly made up of just heads and legs in odd and […]
This one has been under the weather in one way or another for about the past four weeks. Two of those weeks we were in self-isolation. Are we frustrated? Yes. Um… yessssss. Do we trust that it will pass and life will go on? Mostly? Sometimes? Yes, deep down, we believe that, but all over […]
Ray’s birthday is right on the heels of Willa’s birthday. It’s hard on this Mama’s heart to have two littles leap up a year at the same time. I know it’s not actually leaping. But it feels like it sometimes. Ray is now 8. Eight. Huh. I thought it might look less “big girl” written […]
Surely it was just yesterday she was soft and squishy with her rooster hair, barely making a sound and sleeping lots. But no. It was six years ago! And that actually only lasted six months. As we celebrated her birth today, the conversation swung around to her name. It went something like this. “My name, […]
January 26 is Australia Day and we celebrate every year. Our first Australia Day was less than a month before Willa was born when Ray was just shy of two. We were living with Australians waiting for Beanie to arrive and learning what we could of their culture. Throwing flip-flops and putting fake tattoos of […]
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