Anothersunrise

You don’t get a lot of opportunity for direct feedback from your children. Sure, once they reach a certain age, they will yell, “I hate you!” And if they don’t you just might be doing something wrong. This evening I got a little picture of how the children see me. They were chasing each other [...]

What can be said in New Year rhymes, That’s not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it [...]

I did the big cookie baking gig again this year. I do enjoy it. It really does set me up mentally for the holiday. Putting a lot of love and care, joy and energy into creating the tiny tasty tidbits. The kids are more and more help. They enjoy the process, the music, the smells, [...]

A friend from high school once commented in passing, “You make it look so easy.” That shocked the hell out of me. Because I don’t think I make it look easy. If I do, then I’m not being totally honest with myself or anyone else. This morning Annabella asked to read instead of doing yoga [...]

When I went to pick up Redding from preschool today, his teacher came out and shared some of their day together with us. She is great. Hopefully she will stay longer than the last teacher. One of the things she shared with us about was their big art project today. This is not verbatim what [...]