In the garden as in life: Give food, water, shelter, and room to grow. Remember that this year’s disappointments may bring about next year’s successes. Enjoy the exuberance, and let go when it’s time. Leave room for surprises. These things, I can cultivate. Actual plants, well. I don’t know about that.
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Good morning, Joy Makin’ Mamas. Let’s have lunch. No, really, I want to talk about lunch! It’s so easy to get into a rut here. I mean, if breakfast is …
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We know, on a visceral level, that our children are all different. We KNOW it. We see it, we live it… but somehow we can’t stop listening to the people who try to tell us we should parent them all the same.
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It’s that gardening time of year, but everything is buried under snow and ice. So there’s only one thing for it… it’s time to bust out The Pretend Garden. That’s when I read garden catalogs, decide where I will plant 500 plants this year, plan hideously ridiculous and/or impossible hardscapes, and just generally let loose. But this year, I have an actual project planned that I would have started on already if it weren’t for all this late snow we’ve had.
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Like Princess Leia and her blaster rescuing her supposed saviors, our girls can and will make a mark on this world, and our sons deserve to expect that.
Read MoreThe movie Moms’ Night Out sets out to remind us all that we are enough, that people can surprise us, and that it’s okay if things are not always okay. This …
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