Megan

August 30, 2010

  • Slap-happy Campers

    By Megan
    We took the kids camping for the first time last weekend. I'd never really camped before, so it was all new to me, too. (…)

August 16, 2010

  • T.G.I.S.

    By Megan
    Here in the Midwest, people suck the stinkin' marrow out of summer, because winter sucks the marrow out of our souls, except souls don't have marrow, bones do, but for the purposes of my clever opening sentence we're going to just set all that aside and nod our heads in agreement, right? (…)

August 2, 2010

  • Journeys, The Pink and The Blue

    By Megan
    I'll spend this week packing and training and mentally preparing to participate in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure in my adopted home city, Chicago, starting Friday. (…)

July 26, 2010

  • Putting Down the Books

    By Megan
    I cleaned out and organized my desk on Saturday, unearthing, among many other long lost treasures, my dog-eared copy of Paul Weissbluth's Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. (…)

July 12, 2010

June 28, 2010

  • Sunday Night Teaches Me

    By Megan
    We spent a beautiful afternoon in the shady back yard tonight, soft summery music the soundtrack to our kids' play and their parents' chatter. (…)

June 21, 2010

  • Letting Go

    By Megan

    Parenting-wise, I tend to do things my own way. (…)

June 14, 2010

  • Dance of a Mother

    By Megan
    Bean danced all weekend in her very first dance recital, times two — my first-born, tall and proud young bone and muscle beside me but still so fluffy-tiny against the backdrop of the cavernous high school stage. (…)

June 7, 2010

  • Got My Rubber Sandals, Got My Straw Hat

    By Megan
    Summer's here, and as anyone who lives in the Midwest (or Northeast, or anywhere winters are frigid and unrelenting and LONG) would be, I am 100% for that. (…)

May 24, 2010

  • An Other Day

    By Megan
    There are days, my friends, when all of my reflection and appreciation and joy and love aren't enough to keep me from being frustrated and irritated and DONE with motherhood. (…)

May 17, 2010

  • Tooth Fairy

    By Megan

    So, we have a loose tooth in the household. (…)

May 10, 2010

  • The Girl Who Made Me Mama

    Right before 6 AM our door squeaked open and I heard her little feet, tiptoetiptoetiptoe, and the rattlerattlerattle of a white paper bag decorated with a yellow handprint daisy. (…)

May 3, 2010

April 26, 2010

  • Needed

    By Megan
    Originally published at FriedOkra last month.
    This morning Peabody came to me, whining, and held his arms up, buried his head in my legs, asking me to pick him up. (…)

April 12, 2010

  • Stuff I'm Lovin' - Kid Version, Part I

    By Megan
    I don't normally get around to doing "Things I Like" lists, even though like most people, I do tend to like stuff. Sometimes a rilly, rilly lot. (…)

March 29, 2010

  • Best. Checklist. Ever.

    By Megan
    The weather forecast for the next week in Chicago gets better every day.  By Thursday we'll hit the 70s with plenty of sunshine. (…)

March 22, 2010

March 15, 2010

March 8, 2010

  • Just Us One

    By Megan
    I took a little day trip away from my family this weekend.  I'd not been away from Peabody for this long since he was about six months old. (…)

March 1, 2010