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16 Dec Deliberately, with love

Posted at 16:06h in Family, Feelings, Love, Parenting 0 Comments

A friend posted on Facebook asking what her friends did today to make the world a better place. I wrote: "Made Christmas cookies with my family. Raising Henry to be a loving, empathetic, soulful creature who is secure, generous, kind, confident and self-reliant is my...

09 Jul Henry’s iTunes Playlist

Posted at 02:43h in Family, Music, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Running through the background of videos of my first few months on earth and all my childhood memories were the tunes from a black cassette tape with Kate's Birthing Tape written in my dad's penmanship on it. It's a mix that my parents made together...

20 May Austin Family Pilgrimage

Posted at 22:26h in Family, Genealogy, Photos 4 Comments

Today was one for the history books. I asked my grandfather Poppy if he would take me to the Homestead, the house that his great-grandfather Nathan Austin built in Upstate New York, where Poppy used to spend his summers as a boy. He'd take the train...

14 May Climbing through the branches of the family tree

Posted at 20:44h in Family, Feelings, Genealogy 3 Comments

this is for the grandmother who walked a thousand miles on broken glass to find that single patch of grass to plant a family tree where the fruit would grow to laugh - Andrea Gibson, Say Yes This weekend I am going to Alfred, New York, with my grandfather...

14 May Holding hands in the sunshine

Posted at 18:08h in Family, Love, Parenting 1 Comment

Peanut and I had a lovely Mother's Day with both of his grandmothers, my Nonnie and Auntie Jo (who is herself a grandmother-to-be)! We went to the buffet at South Station and I ate too many cream puffs and chocolate-dipped strawberries. This morning I had...