SPRING!!! wait, i mean christmas. except that it’s raining and 45+ degrees outside. (funny how we get excited about 40 degrees in michigan…) i think a couple of my perennials may even be starting to poke their little heads out of the ground and are probably really confused. i’m a little sad that it doesn’t...
Monthly Archives: December 2006
maybe it’s because our budget is tight. maybe it’s because our house is small. maybe it’s because we’ve seen what having lots of stuff and getting lots more stuff can do in our kid’s hearts (not to mention our own). or, maybe it’s because we think our friends brian and amy are really cool and...
last year as i began looking into doing some kind of advent calendar with the kids in preparation for Christmas, i realized that many of them are mostly about Santa and candy. i also began to realize that in its familiarity, the nativity was cute but not all that exciting or meaningful to me. i...
we had just returned home from sawyer’s doctor appointment this afternoon and i still had to feed him his lunch. i asked miriam if she would “read” levi a story and put him down for his nap. i figured, no harm done if it doesn’t work. about 20-30 minutes later as i was finishing feeding...
the following discourse between the Rabbit and the Skin Horse warmed my heart today as i read to miriam from The Velveteen Rabbit–especially the last part: “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean...
