I unpacked the last of the kitchen this week, ignoring the handful of small details around the space we’re still waiting to complete, grateful to...

  “a weekly portrait of each of my children in 2014” liam // I found you inspecting a spider, studying the way it slowly moved along...

When I was pregnant with Liam over a decade ago, I walked into a local baby store planning to itemize a few things we would...

I recently read a Twitter chat between a cluster of homeschooling moms mourning that one had recently been asked which curriculum to use for a three-year-old. Although these moms...

liam // You finally finished another level of math this week, through much perseverance, I might add. Most days, you’d rather draw or read or...

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. — Henry James Last weekend we traveled...

I woke up this morning at roughly 3:00am unable to go back to sleep. After tossing around for a while, I decided it was a...

Sometimes perfectionist slips in here, only wanting to present that part of our life which is pretty and organized and complete (even in thought). I...

We’re trying to establish routines again–a bit of play, a bit of house work, a bit of school work, a bit of rest–dividing up hours...

Although Mark and I try to have at least a weekend or two a year to ourselves, we generally go away for those days, holing...