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06 Sep Worst mom in the world. Happy first day of school!

Posted at 01:25h in Bad stuff, Family, Feelings, Glens Falls, milestones, Parenting, Uncategorized, Working Mom 0 Comments

I had the best laid plans. I bought Henry a new lunch box. Well, new to us; a used Planetbox with custom magnets with all his favorite things; tornadoes, a fire alarm, our Chrysler Town & Country and a family portrait. Unknowingly, Cory's parents also bought...

31 Aug My parents’ stuff

Posted at 07:33h in Family, Feelings, Generations, Time, Uncategorized 0 Comments

I remember thinking, when I saw footage of the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan, how crazy it was that a disaster could turn houses, libraries, schools, museums, cars, people, into debris floating in the ocean. After Hurricane Katrina, my friend Emma went to help and photographed...

30 Aug On Henry’s graduation from daycare

Posted at 13:56h in Family, Family Time, Glens Falls, Time, Working Mom 0 Comments

I thought that my oldest son Henry turning five would have hit me harder. But the busy tasks of putting on a birthday party kept me occupied and it passed without any major meltdowns on my part. And I thought that him starting Kindergarten would...

28 May T-Ball, Yelling All Day, and Nostalgia

Posted at 14:06h in Discipline, Family Time, Glens Falls, Love, Parenting, Time 0 Comments

Henry's in T-ball and we are experiencing Glens Falls Little League for the first time ever. I've lived in this city for something like ten years now and I had no idea that this big underground party was going on without us. Did you know that all...

14 Apr New life is underneath the old dead stuff

Posted at 03:15h in Feelings, green, Love 0 Comments

I love Easter. I was baptized on Easter in a dramatic ceremony. Father Rick, the priest at the time at the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour in Killington, Vermont, had a background in theater. It was dark, and then we came in during a procession, and...

15 Mar All of the answers, there in the Kate archives

Posted at 13:50h in Bad stuff, Feelings, Time 0 Comments

I've written about this before, the rough patch I went through in high school. (I swear I'll get back to cute kid stories soon.) I went to Northeastern Family Institute once and Brattleboro Retreat twice, for self harm and depression. I grew up with two loving...

10 Mar The old grey mare, She ain’t what she used to be

Posted at 02:43h in Bad stuff, Feelings, Time, Two Kids 0 Comments

Ima start this out by saying that I know some FOXY moms. Some women who are drop dead gorgeous and their momming makes them that much more beautiful. Moms are beautiful. And a body is something that is beautiful because it's functional and it does its job...