I am a fairly risk-adverse person. I tend more often to stick with what I know and with whom and where I am comfortable. When...

It snowed this week–merely a light dusting of ice, but the kids didn’t care. They put on their warmest garb–which wasn’t quite warm or waterproofed...

Honestly, I haven’t always loved the morning. My body and mind seem to move in half-time, fumbling for order with garbled words and hair and...

list-making / unmade beds / holiday baking / endless amounts of pretend play / poetry and hot cocoa / new braids / gift wrapping /...

To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, An...

Sometimes it is easy to look at other people’s pictures or lives and feel that I am somehow missing out. That I don’t have enough....

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to...

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make...

  Rest and be thankful. ― William Wordsworth Sometimes I think about the early days of our family, when we’d harness babies to our bodies and...

One day our life will be quiet and clean just as it was in the beginning before kids, and I always hope that in those...