This past week, my husband and I celebrated our SEVENTH wedding anniversary. We didn’t do much (its hard to find a babysitter during a pandemic), but it still felt pretty momentous. Dan and I were the first of our friends to get married. Our wedding was in July of 2013,…
View PostStaying home with kids is a gift, but it’s also really hard. Going to work when you have kids at home is extremely fulfilling, but also really hard. I know this because I have the privilege of straddling the line between the stay at home mom (SAHM) world, and the…
View PostI want to preface this by emphasizing the fact that I am not a home-school mom, or even a preschool teacher. I also desperately miss my daughter’s in-person preschool, and the bazillion things they were able to teach, that I can not. One of the reasons that I love preschool,…
View PostWhat does The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown have to do with The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett? Kind of a lot (although I’m not sure whether Bennett would appreciate the comparison). Both are about the constraints of identity and the ways in which we spend our lives fighting…
View PostSeeds and Trees by Brandon Walden is about a young prince who receives “seeds” from all of the people he speaks to in a day. Sometimes the seeds are green, and sometimes they are black, depending on whether the words exchanged were kind or not. Every day, the prince goes…
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