One of the greatest moral challenges living in Washington, DC posed to me was the “card check.” Whenever you met people, inevitably the first question after names was, “What do you do?” and your erstwhile correspondent would evaluate how long to talk to you by your professional status. Since I was there on my first job after college, my status… Read more →
Last week, though it feels like a year ago, I spoke at a conference to mothers and their daughters about modesty. It was a surprise topic for me. In coming up with what I would say, I had a lot of assorted thoughts that did not end up making it into the talk. Here’s one set. It’s my list of… Read more →
Time for more pictures of things I’ve made. Somehow, it made sense to me to take my precious quiet after the kids have gone to bed time to make Esther an Easter dress. It was very simple, so that helped. This first picture is how the dress looked nicely laid out on the table. The shoulder straps were tie-ons to… Read more →
I do not know how I manage to craft while not managing to blog about it. It must be that crafting puts me at my limit and blogging runs over. At any rate, I wanted to post a blanket I started for Esther back in November. This was before the gift avalanche, when I had nearly no girl things and… Read more →
Today, I was set to record a podcast over the phone with a guest at 3 p.m. Ransom takes his afternoon nap from 2:30 to 4:30, so is usually quieted down by 3 and it’s a favored recording time. At 2:50, Esther is sleeping. But I hear noises from Ransom that are loud enough to make me think he’s playing… Read more →
I know—and probably will continue to know for some time—gobs of pregnant and new mothers. Since I’ve also gotten several asking for advice, I thought I’d condense the vitamin and gadget recommendations into one nice little Amazon list and post it here for easy reference and sharing. These are simple, natural things I found immensely useful for managing this uncomfortable,… Read more →
Long, long ago, on a farm far away, I knew that being a mother was hard. I didn’t know experientially that everything about pregnancy sucked except the baby (which, when it gets out, almost exclusively wants to suck), that the weeks after the hardest thing I have ever done in my life (getting that baby out) would make me look… Read more →
I have not been allowed to post pictures of my duvet cover in various states of undone as an inducement to finish it. It has, after all, taken nearly two years to complete. I started it sometime in between marriage and Ransom, which was also sometime in between three moves and nearly two babies, which hopefully explain my lame, lame… Read more →
I’ve been thinking about popping in here for weeks and everything else has been instead so pressing. I try to fly through as many professional to-do items as possible during work hours so I can devote evenings and weekends to my men; and many evenings find me composing lesson plans and grading assignments for a group of promising high school… Read more →
Sometimes I feel like I’m Nathaniel’s husband. We had a rough last Friday. Ransom was sick (snuffles, molar coming in, slight fever) and a flood of work happened to arrive around 3 p.m., just when I didn’t feel like doing any before a long weekend. But I did it anyway, so Nathaniel sweetly bustled about making dinner in the meantime…. Read more →
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