Some days you just need a little extra cuteness. Miss Fiona woke me at 5 this morning in a bit of a funk. She’s not feeling well and is being rather hard to please. I finally went searching on you-tube for cute animal videos, since those can brighten just about any day. This one was…
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On Hiatus
Sorry for my absence lately. I’m in Florence Nightingale mode for a bit. My sweetie got a new hip last Friday at the Mayo. He’s had arthritis since he was two years old, and as a child he was told that he’d be in a wheelchair by the time he was 18. He lasted a…
Happy 2013!
I have written an awful lot of New Year posts on this blog and for the Magical Childhood newsletters over the years. I started A Magical Childhood when my Annalee was just a baby in my arms as I typed, and next month she is turning 13! I am so glad that life kept throwing…
You’re (Still) a Fabulous Mother
(One of the nice things about having written A Magical Childhood for so many years is that I have lots of archives to dig up and share again every once in a while! Here’s a favorite of mine from May 2010 that I thought deserved to be said again.) I’ve been hearing lately from mothers…
This is a Home Where Children Live
This is a Home Where Children Live You may not find things all in place, Friend, when you enter here. But, we’re a home where children live, We hold them very dear. And you may find small fingerprints And smudges on the wall. When the kids are gone, we’ll clean them up, Right now we’re…
Flight
I am alone tonight. I was alone last night, too. This is the first time I’ve been absolutely alone (without at least one of the kids) for this long in over thirteen years of parenthood! Daryl and the kids are volunteering at a wonderful event called History Fest out of town. We volunteer there as…
Dear Baby…
Dear Baby, You should be here in a little over two months now. This seems like the longest pregnancy in history, but there’s still so much to be done to prepare for you. We thought we were all done with babies, after all, and our life is so crazy and chaotic even when there aren’t…
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Once More)
Long time readers probably know by now that my family lives near Walnut Grove of “Little House” fame and that my girls have acted in a local outdoor play (The Wilder Pageant) about the Ingalls family’s time in our area since they were little. Anna started acting in the pageant when she was four years…
A Heartbeat!
Most of you know that we got some very surprising news in early February that we were expecting. I had been doing my best to see myself as pregnant but not necessarily as having a baby, because with my history of miscarriage (and my age) I knew there was a high chance of something going…
We’re Back!
We’re back from our road trip to Florida. It’s a bit of culture shock to be back in snowy Minnesota. I had kind of hoped it would have magically turned a little spring-like while we were gone, but no such luck! Lucky for us, we got so much sand, sun and smiles that it should…