weekly photo vol 21

Over Christmas break, we played games, read books, made art, went to visit friends and family. We took a family photo with my 94 year old mamaw and came back home all in one piece. Most of the pictures have the boys faces in them and they are wonderful and cute and I still don’t […]

Delights 2: home

We got home from our holiday trip today. We pulled in today to a slightly musty smell (our bonus daughter stayed here the whole time; it wasn’t an empty house. Does the house just smell and I’m used to it??) and a stack of boxes. On the drive, I pointed out the rest area where […]

Delights 1: My Friend Sarah

I’ve been reading The Book of Delights by Ross Gay, which is unequivocally a book for me. Years ago, I used the hashtag “chasing tiny delights” and chronicled the beautiful gifts of my life. It fed a gratitude practice and, while it sounds overdone, I do believe it has changed my life. Reading his book […]

a circular path

16 years ago when I was pregnant with our oldest son, I made some chalk pastel drawings for his nursery. I crouched in the floor and worked and worked on them. I still love them. I did another set sometime later. And then, after that, I barely touched the pastels. Maybe because they are super […]

weekly photos vol 20

weekly photos vol 19

I tried a new way of uploading photos and they did this? Will I be able to do it again next week? I have no idea. Do I even like it? Either way, fall break was fun. I did paddleboard but I did not do it as gracefully as my 13yo.

Klara and the Sun

I stayed up too late last night to finish Klara and the Sun. I’ve never wished for a book club more. It’s a dystopian story, set in a future where kids are genetically “lifted” and possibly damaged at the same time. Some people are post-employment. Life is fragmented and isolated. And people buy Artificial Friends […]