"In vain you rise early and stay up late..." (Prov. 127:2)
How many hours of sleep do you get? How many do you dream of...
Recently I have been witness to wonderful things happening all around me. I'm talking about people giving back, charity work, donating, and volunteering. Through...
My wife and I have twins. Toddler twins, of the boy-girl variety.
Almost two years into parenting them, (and over 2 years since we found...
I seem to have reached a milestone in my journey as a mother - heck, maybe even in my journey of life.
It came upon...
I met Olive when I was twenty-one years old and in my fourth year of undergraduate school. Olive had just turned four, and her...
Below are some simple, yet surprising - and maybe not so surprising things- that have really changed since becoming a parent.
1. Birthdays
I like to...
Weary, that's how I've been feeling lately.
Autumn is creeping in, it still looks like summer but the light casts a distinct autumn glow, slanty...
So many of my friends that I've long admired for their parenting-- smart, successful, confident women-- seem weighed down by the totally wrong-headed belief...
Admittedly I have a lot of patience…for some things.
I can sit on the couch for over an hour and painstakingly try to “sew”...
When I was around 14 years old, I started to have some anxiety before falling asleep.
I would lie in bed with so many thoughts...
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to...
My daughter loves to watch a good movie or TV show. I try to limit her screen time on most days, but I have...
My children are incredibly lucky to have a whole gaggle of grandparents.
My husband's parents live literally within a stone's throw of our house, my...
We are so happy to contribute to the BurlingtonVT Moms Blog. We have been avid followers of it as our daughter Heather and her...
In + Around Vermont
Winter in Vermont
It is late fall and the temperature drops just enough for the precipitation to turn from pestery rain into beautiful, soft, magical snowflakes and...
