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In which I question my homemaking and prepare for three days of Feasting

by Filed Under: Felicity, Keeping It Real, Minnesota Me, My Girls, Special Events 13 Comments

Updated to Add: It just occurred to me that this title sounds like a reference to Thanksgiving. It’s not! I can’t even think about Thanksgiving until we’re finished with these two birthdays.Lawda mercy, but it’s true. Here we go again.Yesterday was my daughter Cate’s 10th birthday.Today we celebrate Felicity’s 8th.It’s crazy, it’s busy, it’s … [Read more...]

Vintage Six

by Filed Under: Family Fun, Minnesota Me, My Girls, Special Events 22 Comments

“All things bright and beautiful pink and purple-y;All creatures Littlest Pet Shop great and small,All things wise and wonderful frosted and ice-creamy,The Lord God made them all.”My five-year-old went away yesterday.In her place, I have a princess.Do you have a six-year-old princess chez vous? They’re great. They like pink and purple.They really, … [Read more...]

A Day in the Life of a Soccer Mom

by Filed Under: Family Fun, Minnesota Me, My Girls, Sports Stuff 14 Comments

I can’t believe I just wrote that title.Am I really a soccer mom? If so, how did I get here? I never planned to be a soccer mom.I’d always thought of myself as a stay-home-and-read-a-good-book kind of mom. Or how about a stay-home-and-bake-cookies mom? I could do that. I have done that.This business, though, of driving my children from this sport … [Read more...]

My Tiny Dancer

by Filed Under: Felicity, Growing Up, Minnesota Me, Special Events 22 Comments

Part II(Read Part I here.)We only have one daughter who’s in dance right now—my middle girl, my littlest girl.“Little” as in petite itself.Petite as petite can be.Now then. What with all my blogging about baseball and soccer—all the good-natured complaining about simultaneous games and chilly venues—I haven’t said much about Felicity’s sport. I … [Read more...]