This Saturday, we celebrated Oak’s third birthday! What started as a relaxed barbecue with a few friends and family, turned into an all out affair, ...
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Motherhood Right Now: Something Oak Said
While this blog started off as a documentation of my personal journey in motherhood, so much has taken place since we started. Naturally, the blog ...
Thinking & Playing Before Dark
We aren’t precious about our toys; not precious about much that belongs to the kids, really—only passed-down vintage clothes. We have two baskets for the ...
Motherhood Right Now
Motherhood right now is hour by hour, minute by minute. My eyes see only the cuts on their knees and the tans on their toes. ...
Two: An Essay On Growing With Him
I blew out the candle flickering on the porch, the one that had illuminated that evening’s dinner, the one I had to shoo the kids ...
Is Your Toddler Eating Enough?
By nature, River was a grazer. She developed her eating habits trying anything we lay before her from our magical bag of tricks. A cracker ...
Navigating New York This Winter
We recently had friends visiting us, and as we made our way around the city, we noticed our differences in preparedness and expectation. And though ...