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Category: family
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Sowing Seeds
Don’t forget! This evening, over on my channel, I’ll be chatting live at 7:30 pm EST. I’ve been told the most reliable way to remember is to click the notification bell when you subscribe to the channel. Up to you – if you follow that link you will find all the older videos I’ve…
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A Quiet Anniversary
Fifteen years and a few days ago, I published my first blog post. It was unashamedly a Mommy blog, because it was before any social media I knew of (I’m sure Myspace was a thing, I had no idea of it) and I wanted to share the quiet joys of my small family with…
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Morning Ambushed Me
I’m sitting at the kitchen table on this Christmas Eve morning, chatting with the Little Man and First Reader, patting the cat or the dog when they come within my arm’s reach. It is a pleasant sensation to be here, now, even if I did wake up far too early. I was out of…
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Happy Monday
I’m sitting here, holding my socks in one hand and coffee in the other… how am I typing, you ask? Well, I keep putting my socks down and sipping my coffee and touching the keyboard and repeating it all very very quickly. Not really. It just feels like that after this weekend. You know…
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The Paradigm of Parenting
This isn’t something you think about, if you have had a normal childhood. Which one of us, when we were young and under the care of loving parents, would think that one day the shoe would be on the other foot? If we thought about it, we contemplated having young ones of our own.…
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Anniversary Day
This was originally published on Sarah Hoyt’s blog just before the First Reader and I were wed, five years ago now. The final line was what we spoke as we leaped a sword together, in symbolism of severing ties with our pasts while clinging to one another for the rest of our lives. Marriage…
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Tricksy Portrait
The First Reader is not quite sure how to react to Father’s Day. He has no children-of-the-blood, but he has stood in loco parentis to children over the years, and feels like he has been a grandfather to more than a few. Now, with the Junior Mad Scientist and Little Man under his roof,…
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Mahogany Handles
This isn’t a recipe. No, it’s the story of a very expensive stick, and how it brought a family heirloom back to life. A while back, maybe a year, my mother passed on a cast iron waffle maker to me. I loved it. The problem was that although all the metal pieces were there,…
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Guest Post: I’m Tired of Looking Things Up
Cedar’s Note: This post was written by my mother, and she is talking about my baby sister. I’ve been sick all weekend, and maybe that’s why I cried when Mom sent this to me. Or maybe it’s that this is the first time I’ve ever seen Mom talking about it all in one place.…
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Finding Limits
Huh, funny how that phrase gives me flashbacks to calculus class. And in some ways what I’m thinking about today is similar to that level of math. As you approach zero, without quite ever reaching zero… That’s where the limits are. When you can’t go any lower without your heart stopping, that’s where the…
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The Trifecta
The First Reader and I were sitting out on the porch this morning. It’s incredibly mild for February in Ohio, and even in the pre-dawn darkness it was almost warm enough to be out without a coat. That ends this afternoon, of course. Back to more normal weather. But we were also building castles…
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Rambles in a Messy House
I’m completely out of the habit of blogging. It doesn’t help that I am busy, busier than I anticipated being at this season of life. I’ve also started to feel like I have nothing meaningful to say. I’m not attracted to commentary about social whatzits and whoosits very often, and tend to steer clear…