Sadie: All moms are annoying. Kids don’t want moms. Me: Hmm. I think kids would really miss moms if they weren’t there. Sadie: Yeah, maybe other kids don’t want moms, but I do. I just wish you didn’t always tell me what to do. It’s very annoying. How would you feel if I said to [...]
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Why My Self-esteem Doesn’t Depend on a Six Year Old
Posted in Family, Funny, Motherhood, Sadie, Self-image, Silly, Surreal, Uncategorized, Well-being, Who am I?, tagged Motherhhood, Rolling My Eyes on November 2, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Good News
Posted in death, Family, God, Grace, hope, How I still am a Pharisee, joy, Learning, life, Losing a sibling, My sister, The afterlife, Uncategorized, Well-being, Who am I?, Wonder, work, tagged Blown Away, God, Grace, Losing a sibling on October 27, 2008 | 15 Comments »
So I swiped my sister’s journals while I was home this weekend. I was looking for her CDs (that girl had more music than anyone I know…) and while I was rifling through her stuff (I’m getting used to it now–I don’t feel so much like a scavenger or an intruder) I found the journals. [...]
Barbies
Posted in Family, Funny, Learning, Motherhood, Ponderings, Sadie, Silly, Who am I? on February 8, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Every morning, the minute Sadie wakes up, she wants to play Barbies. When I was pregnant and pious, I vowed that MY little girl would not be allowed to play Barbies. She wouldn’t wear pink, either. No child of mine would be trapped by old-fashioned oppressive stereotypes. MY child would be liberated from the ‘ideal’ [...]
It!
Posted in Community, Creativity, Funny, Silly, Who am I? on February 5, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Caroline over at Rainbow’s Start and End tagged me and here are the rules: Once you are tagged, link back to the person who tagged you. Post the rules on your blog. Post 7 random or weird facts about yourself on your blog. Tag 7 people and link to them. Comment on their blog to let them know [...]
The Hole
Posted in Calling, Frustration, God, Grace, Learning, Ponderings, Theology, Uncategorized, Well-being, Who am I? on December 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I found a quote in Reader’s Digest (one of the many that I filched from the free table at the library…) that I loved so much I ripped it out of the book: “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not [...]
An Important Visitor
Posted in homemaking, House Muse, Motivation, Procrastination, Silly, Well-being, Who am I? on November 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The House Muse visited me today; I vacuumed and swept and straightened. And she told me something: “Your perfectionism is doing you no good,” she said. “I give you permission to do a half-assed job. Don’t worry about the corners; those spiders can wait until I visit you again. That will also be the day [...]
Wrestling with Graduate School
Posted in Calling, God, Learning, Mother-guilt, Motherhood, Ponderings, Theology, Who am I?, Writing on November 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So I’m thinking about graduate school. Thinking about it A LOT. My big worry is that I’ll look back and say ‘yeah, I got that degree, but I missed years of Sadie’s life.’ Because I’m not that good multi-tasking. I can be somewhat (ahem…) all or nothing. Balance is hard for me to come by [...]
The Muse
Posted in Creativity, homemaking, Motivation, Ponderings, Procrastination, Well-being, Who am I? on November 13, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I have decided that I’m ok even if I don’t make a schedule for housekeeping. Even if I don’t swish out the toilet every day or vaccum on Tuesdays, I am still a fine person. When did I get it in my head that my housekeeping ability equaled my worth as an individual? It is [...]
The End, Finally.
Posted in Anxiety, Frustration, God, Grace, Learning, Ponderings, Sad, Theology, Well-being, Who am I?, Wonder, work on October 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Well, I finally came to the end the other night. I’ve been there before, and I don’t know why it always takes so long for me to get there. I’ve been inside my head for a few weeks, hearing the lying, evil thoughts that say I’m hopeless, that I will never change, that I’ll never [...]
Gifts and the Drum Guy
Posted in Calling, Church, God, Grace, Learning, Ponderings, Uncategorized, Who am I?, Wonder on October 25, 2007 | 5 Comments »
There’s this guy at church who plays the drums. He’s from South America, and according to his roommate, he never stops moving. Even when he’s not playing, he’s playing. He is Rhythm. During the songs, I watch him, mesmerized. He’s all there–fully engaged and attached to what he is doing–not even noticing that there are [...]
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