I read this yearly recap on All & Sundry’s blog a couple years ago, and have been doing it every year since. 1. What did you do in 2013 that you’d never done before? I planned ahead with a meal plan for the week, bought the groceries for said meals, and then cooked accordingly each night. Sad to say that in my 38 years, this is the first time I’ve dabbled in meal planning instead of trying to figure out what to make every evening at 5pm. I’m hoping to do more of it in the coming . . .
Archives for December 2013
Best Books of 2013
I’m not sure I’m really qualified to comment on the best books of the year since I haven’t read that many. Perhaps this should be called “My favorite reads.” But here are some of the books I read this year that I really enjoyed and recommend. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple – This quirky, clever novel was a page-turning collection of correspondence seeking to discover why an anxious housewife disappeared. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman – This beautiful novel tells the . . .
What I want you to know about adopting seven children
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is by Becky Ketarkus. Large families aren't freaks, and I'm no saint. When people ask me how many children I have, and I answer, the reaction is always the same...open mouthed shock. I'm 34, and . . .
That’s what SHE said: on breaking the internet, making friends in your 30’s, overdocumenting your life, Asians as sidekicks, and more . . .
The Documented Life | NYTimes.Com These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a stop sign, at the checkout line at a supermarket and, yes, at a memorial service, reaching for a device becomes so natural that we start to forget that there is a reason, a good reason, to sit still with our thoughts: It does honor to what we are thinking about. It does honor to ourselves. God May Not Have A Wonderful Plan For Your Life | . . .
Ten news stories from this year that will restore your faith in humanity
Unrest in the Middle East, the Boston Marathon bombings, the NSA spying scandal, the government shutdown, Miley Cyrus...there have been plenty of news stories in 2013 that make me want to curl up in a fetal position. People can absolutely be the worst. Which is why I'm a sucker for those yearly roundups of uplifting news you tend to see at this time every year. You know, the ones that are supposed to restore your faith in humanity? Because here at the end of 2013, it turns out I do, in fact, . . .
About a boy
Yesterday I waxed a little nostalgic about Jafta on instagram as we celebrated his birthday. I thought I would share that here for those of you not following me there. It occurred to me that I’ve never really blogged about Jafta’s adoption story, since it happened before I started blogging. Some of it is here, but I will have to dedicate some time to write more about it in the future. It’s a long, emotional story. Jafta joined our family as a foster child at 6 months old, and we finalized his . . .
Mama Said: Birthday Party Madness
On this episode of Mama Said, Sarah and I are talking about how we handle birthday parties with our kids. Which is timely since TODAY IS JAFTA’S and mine is on the 31st. How about you? Do you have any strategies for birthday celebrations? . . .
Jafta turns 9!
Jafta turns 9 today! It's hard to believe my oldest is nine. Why does that seem so big? We are currently visiting my family in Florida, so we had a birthday party for him before we left. He has been begging to have a GameTruck party ever since he learned that it was A Thing, and Skylanders offered to host a GameTruck party with their new Swap Force game. He was over the moon about the idea. When we pulled up to our house the day of the party and saw the truck in the driveway, he screamed in . . .
What I want you to know: Getting pregnant after adopting
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Maralee Bradley. Just a year into my young marriage my husband and I received an infertility diagnosis. In some ways it was devastating, but we also felt confident that we were supposed to . . .
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