“Do one thing every day that scares you.” Eleanor Roosevelt Last weekend we took a family hike. It was absolutely gorgeous and required just enough of me physically and mentally that I found myself completely engrossed in the task at hand. We trekked through terrain that alternated between rocky, muddy and icy until we hit the summit of [...]
Thursday, April 12, 2012
This week is spring break and I am not home. Each morning one or both of us have dropped the girls off at Nana and Jeannie’s. It’s a luxury. It’s also a sacrifice. I find myself feeling like a sham at work and at home as I take this week that so many parents are spending with [...]
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
We were on a road trip this weekend and I felt a cloak of dissatisfaction in myself coming over me. I am always susceptible to it when I am away from home. I resent not having all my things and my hair always seems to frizz and I forget a certain bra or I sit [...]
Monday, March 19, 2012
I unplugged this weekend. No Twitter. No Facebook. No email. No texting. Virtually no tv. I have a third-trimester-like-instinct to nest. I cannot stop my mind from thinking about preparing the house for warm weather, organizing the girls’ clothes, determining what we’ll be growing in the garden this year. Even more than addressing our home, there [...]
Saturday, March 10, 2012
I took a while to hop on the Instagram bandwagon, but when I did, I did so without looking back. The thing is, I’ve had so many cameras fall victim to the intensity of our pace—hiking (rocks are not soft to land on), swimming (water is just so wet), traveling (things get misplaced), going in [...]
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
I think I’ve mentioned that we have a retail store in downtown Glens Falls called Nine Authentic Goods. If you go and do things like read the shipping information, you might catch little wisps of my writing. If you tour the products you’ll see me, Sean and my friends, you’ll experience a thing/place/idea that came to [...]
Thursday, March 1, 2012
If tomorrow we should wake to a fresh blanket of snow, let us look at it as a fresh start. Let the worries that have weighed us down, sink gently into the earth below. We’ll carve a new path with renewed clarity and hope. Let it all just fall away. Counting my blessings for dear friends sharing this [...]
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
I don’t think I’d be making myself out as being terribly unique if I shared that I struggle with abusive behavior. We all do, right? No one likes people who are mean, duplicitous or unpredictable. It’s tough to know when to let it roll off your back and when to stand your ground. Which idiot [...]
Sunday, February 12, 2012
I’ve been not wanting to get sucked into the fray, whether it’s politics, celebrity death or social media missteps. It got me to thinking that what really matters is what is closer to home. I can’t influence any of the other things unless I start at home. Am I being kind? Am I being honest? Is the direction [...]
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
About 2 months ago Finley gave up nightgowns. Flowers, princesses, long, short, old, new, made no difference, she wanted nothing to do with them. I wouldn’t make a huge deal out of this except that it coincided with the height of her insistence that she didn’t need a diaper at night (she did. Again and [...]
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
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