Figuring out this whole parenting thing one playground at a time
Every night when I say goodnight to my babes I ask them what their favorite part of their day was. I love hearing what stood out for them about the day especially on the days that feel really hard. Yesterday was a hard day. Lucas had hit his wall of virtual learning for the week [...]
Four years ago I gave birth to the sweetest, most beautiful, 9 pound baby boy. All the cliches I had always heard about motherhood finally made sense to me. I was in a glorious love bubble, and completely unaware of the hard times that were ahead of us. I knew very early on that something [...]
About a decade ago I was a flight attendant. I'm not sure how a decade has already gone by, but apparently I'm getting old. I worked for a charter airline that mainly did troop movements during the main part of the war. That job changed my life. I had never been out of the country [...]
I don't LOVE to cook. I'm a good cook, I just don't love it. I especially don't love to cook directly before, or after having a baby. The thought of prepping a couple months worth of food when I was nine months pregnant sounded daunting, and so displeasing to me, but after my first baby [...]
These are the last pictures I have with my mom. We went to Florida to visit her that April. I did not want to go on this trip. My husband kept pushing for us to go, but I had this feeling in the pit of my stomach something bad was going to happen. Anyone who [...]
Have you ever participated in the free museum day that the Smithsonian magazine organizes? This was our first year participating in it and we hope to make it a yearly thing from now on. When I was looking at the list of museums in our area that were a part of the program I felt [...]
That Playground Life 