Mac has become very busy. Extremely busy. He loves to walk and run, explore and pull things apart. He loves to push things closed, too, including all doors, and sometimes his fingers are in between. I’ve been trying to keep Mac out of trouble by letting him help me whenever he can. There are some [...]
I leave in two weeks for Hawaii for the summer. It sounds fabulous but is also kind of wrenching as my two oldest sons will be with their dad for the first month and then come to me for the second–and I’ll be away for one of those weeks they’re with me attending Romance Writers [...]
I took this picture yesterday morning, the day after Mother’s Day as I had this moment of intense joy, and satisfaction.
This is my house. This is my home. This is where I’m raising my family.
For our Mother’s Day dinner, I pulled out the Waterford stemware (only the second time since moving back into the house after [...]
March 23, 2010 – 10:49 pm
My baby boy is about to turn eleven months, and then next month he’s a year old.
One year old. Unbelievable.
I’m still exhausted…feeling like I’m a mother to a newborn and he’s trying to walk and wants to start feeding himself and is saying his first words–which, by the way aren’t mama or dada, but Ab [...]
January 26, 2010 – 3:06 pm
I shall make this post brief or it won’t happen I’ve had a hard time writing my blog. I feel almost queasy about writing a blog. It’s not because I don’t want to write one, but because there’s so much I’m thinking about, so much I’m feeling, so much I’m struggling to put into place [...]
January 12, 2010 – 10:05 am
Last Friday I cooked my first meal in my kitchen and last night my son Jake baked a cake. The kitchen is ours. The house is nearing completion. Most of the work remaining is on the library (I converted the living room to a true library…dark paneling, floor to ceiling bookshelves and wonderful crown and [...]
