A Mindful Life

It was a great visit with Aunt LR. We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the beach, Big Basin State Park, music class, gym class, and the park. Aunt LR got lots of reading-to-Claire time, and on Wednesday evening she babysat while Husband and I went to a school meeting. Claire had no separation problems, [...]

In one of her High Five issues, the suggested craft is to put shaving cream and food coloring in a pan. The result is colorful, messy fun. Claire smells like Barbasol shaving cream and had a lot of fun this morning.

Claire and I did a craft suggested at the All Kids Network. Because I couldn’t get her to splay her fingers when I traced her hand, the branches were a bit lumped together. She has the tiniest hands and arms. I set up the picture by gluing construction paper to the white paper and then [...]

My eldest sister is coming Saturday for a weeklong visit. Unfortunately, the weather has decided to turn on us. The weather is always a gamble in September. With no a/c here, we shall roast. Time for field trips to the coast! A strong ridge of high pressure is expected to build over the West Coast [...]

Sometimes I’m that one fish hanging out at the edge, trying to find a way in. Sometimes I’m part of the crowd caught up in the energy of movement. Sometimes I’m the shark in the distance, evaluating possibilities to devour. And sometimes I’m just a bit of seaweed floating along.

Someone recently said to me that they haven’t heard much about our house search and assumed we’d stopped trying. That’s not the case, actually. But trying to find and buy the right house is, I’m finding, very similar to my experience of trying to get pregnant. The first time I was pregnant I told everyone [...]

Today is cloudy and cool — perfect weather to make a small craft. Claire and I made this one together.

Happy birthday, Sunshine Girl!

A woman was shopping in a Walmart with a screaming child. A man approached and threatened the mother to shut her child up or he’d do it. A few moments later, the toddler was still screaming, and the man returned and slapped the child about four times. The incident makes me see red. I am [...]