Megan

This is Home
By Megan
As I sit at my desk in the stillness of this Sunday night after a busy, active weekend for our family, I imagine the front of our home as a sleepy, peaceful face, her blinds half-closed like drooping eyelids, her walkway tossed lazily across the front lawn, an arm across a chest slowly rising and falling in gentle, untroubled slumber. (…)

What's in YOUR Mom-Purse?
By Megan
Back before I had kids, I used to buy purses based on their color. Their texture. The feel of the leather. The way they smelled. (…)

Be Still Life
By Megan
The pages of my life turn so fast. I lay in my bed this morning while the smallest napped, and thought of yesterday, sweet yesterday in the park, already a chapter gone by. Everything's ticking, ticking, ticking; even the hums and drones and whirs of everyday life measure the bars of this family's life, lived. (…)

A Mom's Guide to Soothing First Day of (Pre)School Jitters
By Megan

If you're like me, you've been scampering around for a few weeks now, trying to pull together everything on your Back-to-School list — the registration, the shopping for supplies, clothes and shoes, the re-organizing of the calendar and re-implementation of a school-friendly daily routine — so many important to-dos boiling away on the front burner! In all this scrambling around, I find I'm having to remind myself to keep my little student herself from getting pushed to the back burner as I try to get everything else ready for her second year at pre-school. (…)

Sometimes Parenting Has Very Little to Do With The Children
By Megan
"Grab a fleece and meet me downstairs," I whispered to Al as I brushed past him outside Bean's room Saturday evening. (…)

A Little Piece of the Sun
By Megan
Peabody's sportin' a shiner this Monday morning. (…)

Twice as Everything
By Megan
Last year this time, I stood on the edge of a precipice, waiting and wondering, my mind one big question. (…)

A Mother's Eulogy.
By Megan
I always lamented not having a chance to really know Al's mother. Although I did spend many hours in her quiet, restful company, she'd been diagnosed with Alzheimer's a few years before Al and I married, and by the time we met, she was very ill. (…)

Beautiful Carrie
By Megan
I went to find Bean in the waning hours of a neighborhood party last night, in the filtered, sparkling light of dusk, to take her home with us for the night. (…)

She Wanted Something Called "Honnook?"
By Megan

My big kid's growin' up way faster than it ever occured to me she would, y'all. (…)

Heaven Can Wait. (Spongebob Saves the Day.)
By Megan
Bean and I sat over lunch the other day and I coaxed her to eat her carrots the same way I always do: Make sure you eat all those carrots, they'll help you grow up big and strong. (…)

The Wonders of the Aging Body, According to a Four Year Old
By Megan
I've been working on coming to friendly terms with my post-second-baby, forty-one year old body lately, with its new SillyPutty-like stretches and sags, its dedication to growing hair where I don't want it and shedding hair where I do, and its obsession with simultaneously producing pimples and wrinkles so fast I can almost hear my complexion deteriorating from one minute to the next. (…)

Diaper That Baby With A Little Less Moolah
Last week when Megan so graciously allowed me to fill her in her comfy, cozy Monday spot here, I talked about how much I learn from my children daily. Many of the things I've learned since becoming a parent lay in the realm of the abstract - piercing joy, unspeakable devotion, life-changing love . (…)

Lerin's Recommended Baby Registry Items, Part One
A couple of my favorite Mama-bloggers have agreed to share their thoughts with y'all this month while I'm spending some extra time with my family on these beautiful May weekends. (…)

Simply Spring
By Megan
The weather caught up with the calendar this past week, and finally the kids and I could enjoy the yellow-blue prairie afternoon sun. (…)

Ten Tips for Mothers Expecting Their Second Babies
By Megan
"Wow, looks like my humor has really missed the mark this time! I hope some mothers will still find my suggestions below helpful, even though my slight exaggerations in the interest of a laugh seem to be detracting from the original intent behind my post. (…)

Here Comes The Sun Doot'n Do Do
By Megan
My Grandmama used to make this wholesome, delicious, refreshingly citrus-y little frozen dessert snack for my sister and me and our two cousins when we'd all descend upon her of a summer weekend. (…)

Just, You Know, Don't Expect Us to be Moving Very Fast
By Megan
You know what may turn out to be the best thing about my family's little trip down South last month? (…)