Thanksgiving acts of service with kids
This is the first year where we’re feeling like we can creep past bare minimum mode – just a single toe over the line, honestly – and attempt to do a little something extra for Thanksgiving. I’m…
Luke is a verb
Lately I’ve been taking a little journey back to the period called “inexperienced motherhood.” It usually happens in Trader Joe’s or somewhere else in public, where I’ll look down next to my cart and see that someone…
Leaving baby land
I just had a 5 –minute conversation with my seven –year –old where I used words like “extroversion, introversion, resources, and primary vocation.” He blinked his understanding to me and I really felt like we were having…
More work, more love
(and if I’m being honest, more diapers) While I was sitting vacantly before the keyboard this afternoon a happy little reddish-blonde head bounced up from underneath my chair, and two bright blue eyes crinkled with delight over…
Have baby, will travel
This is a little fluffier than last time, because I like to keep you guys on your toes. Also, because I’m staring down the barrel of packing for 10 days with a messy 13 month old and no…
Grocery shopping with kids, and other small sufferings
They only occasionally nap together still. Today I figured, still hopped up on legal fireworks lit well into the 10 o’clock hour last night and an endless infusion of high fructose corn syrup and food dyes, would be…
Spotless would be great, but decluttered is good enough
Hi, my name’s Jenny and I’m a compulsive tidier-upper. My bathrooms might have an easily distinguishable level of grime about them, but rare is the afternoon you’d walk into our home and see toys on the floor…
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Porn proof kids and patron saints {part 3 in a series}
{Part 1} {Part 2} Lately I’ve been writing about — and hearing heart-wrenching accounts of — people struggling with pornography addiction. It’s rampant in our culture in the West, and the deeper I dig into the statistics and the anecdotes,…
Just be a good lion
I’ve been trying to put some better parenting practices into place lately, to be more present to my kids and to be less, um, yelly. Not that I ever yell. I’m really very mild mannered. But on…
Flying with kids (hint: grab a drink and drop those expectations nice and low)
I’m delirious with excitement (and a little bit of denial, apparently? Because I’m woefully behind in laundry so packing remains but a glimmer in the hazy future) because Luke and I are venturing eastward for my first…