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A Nighttime Ritual
When I was gearing up to try and get pregnant for the first time, I intentionally built a “Relaxation Ritual” into my evening. It was absolutely amazing. I’m feeling like I need to reinstitute something similar into my life. Right now, I get to work at 6:30am, stay on campus until 5pm, do the dinner and bedtime routine until 6:30pm, and then work on my computer until 10:30pm or 11:00pm. There’s not a minute of “me” time in there (well, I guess I sometimes look at Facebook while Matt is bathing the boys).
And do you know where I really want to start? With a good book! What… Read More -
Hallowweeeeennnnn!
It’s that time of year again!
Hooray!
I love the planning, scheming, crafting, and creating that precedes October 31st.
Once Tate gets old enough, we’ll let him start picking his own costumes. In the meantime, I’m trying to seize the opportunity to create family costumes.
Just like last year, we decided to let Henry pick his costume first, and then we built everyone else’s costumes around his (it was a circus theme, and Tate was a strong man). This year Henry decided to be a lion. He didn’t leave us with much to work with beyond The Wizard of Oz (which he doesn’t know anything about), lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my, a pride … Read More
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Around Here Lately
What a hiatus.
I’m sorry!Life has been just-barely-hanging-on around here. Being the principal of a start-up school is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Being the principal of a start-up school on top of being a mother pretty much takes every last ounce of energy that I can muster.But I really want to get back into blogging. It’s my reflection space. It’s my planning space. It’s my space to connect with each of you and to draft the kind of life I want to write for myself (and revise, revise, revise!).… Read MoreI’ve been through so many changes in the past 3.5 years. I gave birth to Henry, I
