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Getting Healthy
I’m not the kind of person who believes “everything happens for a reason,” but I do believe everything that happens eventually leads to good things as well as bad things.When I found out our baby was dead, I wracked my brain trying to think of some of the good things that might be in store for us because of this sad event. It was difficult to do. In all my thinking, all I could come up with is:- Suffering a miscarriage meant that I was no longer pregnant and could therefore eat junk food without worrying about cholestasis or my baby’s healthy development during my two-week vacation. I
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Henry and the Banana
Kylie wrote the nicest post about our book collaboration yesterday (well, I’m not really sure which day it was, since the time difference between the United States and Australia is pretty discombobulating to me).Then in her most recent post, she linked to a video of Henry peeling a banana. Coincidentally, I had just filmed a new video of him peeling a banana. His independence is growing every day. It’s the sweetest thing to watch.I took Henry out to lunch for some Ethiopian food with colleagues today. One of my friend’s said, “Henry seems so independent and comfortable.” I explained that it’s probably because we implement Montessori in… Read More -
Dreaming Big: A Strategy for Starting Small
The other day, I created a Google Form to solicit information for our Staff Directory. I asked the basic questions (name, birthday, address, phone number, etc.) but then decided to include more personal questions, since we’re all new to the organization. I asked “What’s something no one would ever suspect about you?” (My answer involved something about thinking I had prostate cancer when I was in the 7th grade.). I also asked the standard, “What are three adjectives that describe you?” One of my adjectives was “willing to dream big and do something about it.”It was interesting to me that my adjectives have changed over the years. In college,… Read More
