Category Archives: Mothering

Fourteen

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Sara

  Katie, this past weekend you turned fourteen.  I am late writing this because instead of spending your birthday quietly at home with a few friends and your family, you and I spent it in Chicago where you and some … Continue reading →

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Rite of Passage

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Sara

Over the last couple of years it has been really fun to see all the changes that Katie has gone through.  The girl who went happily off to sixth grade with a hole in her shirt saying “Who cares, Mom!  … Continue reading →

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Happy Mother’s Day to Me: 2011

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Sara

This very well may be the best Mother’s Day present ever.

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Out of Control: Part 2

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Sara

The first lesson? Little boys are not like little girls. Little boys have lots of energy and it needs to go somewhere.  And it needs to go there fast.  And furious. Little boys have some sort of magic power that … Continue reading →

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Out of Control: Part 1

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Sara

I like being in control. (That wild cackling you hear?  That would be my family laughing their heads off at that little bit of understatement.) Now I’ve lived long enough and had enough things happen that I know that control … Continue reading →

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Gentle Reminder

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Sara

Oh my, I was so whiny last week Going on about my plans getting changed and things not going my way. Boo Hoo on me. It’s a wonder I could stop feeling sorry for myself long enough to welcome our … Continue reading →

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All Things Bright and Beautiful

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Sara

I will always remember two of the best days of motherhood as the days that Katie fell in love with the Little House on the Prairie series of books and with the books of James Herriot. I remember reading his … Continue reading →

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Let Them Be Them

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Sara

I am slowly learning the lesson that my children are their own person.  Not a smaller version of me or their dad.  Not an extension of me.  Their very own person. I have mostly learned this lesson with the activities … Continue reading →

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Glee and Lime Butter Sauce

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Sara

I was tempted to write about an article I read today in our paper.  It was all about the show “Glee”. Now, JD and I just recently watched the first few episodes of season one (thank you Netflix), and I’ll … Continue reading →

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Mother’s Day

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Sara

There was a time in my life when I was not sure that motherhood was in the cards for me.  Infertility issues made our quest to start a family a little more complicated than most. Thankfully, modern medicine and a … Continue reading →

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