Posted in Raising kids on Aug 17th, 2010
There’s a Beautiful South song that’s been in my head all day: “36D, so what? D, so what? Is that all that you’ve got?” On the cover of the single is a lingerie model holding a watermelon. In my book, 36D does not qualify as a watermelon. I should know. I carried around a watermelon [...]
Posted in Raising kids on Aug 13th, 2010
Last Sunday, August 1, Doug wrote the following in an email to his team at Nordstrom. For those of you who are regular readers of this blog, this will mostly repeat what you’ve read in earlier posts, for which I apologize. I’m posting it anyway because it’s so well-written (yet another reason my husband rocks), [...]
Posted in Raising kids on Aug 10th, 2010
We spent Sunday night at the hospital, rooming in with Luke. He had no monitors, no tubes, nothing to distinguish him from any other baby who is 38-weeks gestational age. Yesterday morning, we brought him home. Nice as it was to have both boys at what Doug calls the baby petting zoo (we pop in, [...]
I am a reader (I feel about books the way some people feel about chocolate: yum), a writer (I've written a book, even: The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year), and a mother (of four). So that's what I blog about: reading, writing, and raising my kids.
