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Home Sweet Home

by | Apr 11, 2014 | Parenting, Uncategorized

We’ve spent the last year plus thinking about Emma and her gap year. (Anyone who knows us is probably tired of hearing about Emma this, and Emma that–but it’s been our LIFE for a while now.) First, we were planning, planning, planning. Then, once she...
Home Sweet Home

Gap Years are for Parents, Too

by | Jan 21, 2014 | Parenting

I can go on and on about what we hoped for Emma while she was on her gap year, but I hadn’t really thought much about what it would be like for me. Her mom. She hasn’t called me “Mommy” in years. While I’ve never thought of myself as a...
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Fly, baby, fly…

by | Sep 8, 2013 | Parenting

Well, there she is. My nineteen-year-old baby off on a gap year. Okay, so it’s not exactly a year, but close ‘nough. Over the next eight months, she will be living and working in Equador, China, India and South Africa. She’ll have...
Flexibility, ya gotta have some

Flexibility, ya gotta have some

by | Aug 27, 2013 | Parenting

Those who know us are probably surprised by this photo. Yes. It is Eli, OUR ElI, on a bike. My feelings on the whole bike thing haven’t changed all that much. I am not thrilled to have bikes back in our life,but there it is. Sometimes, as a parent, you have to...
d’Orsay can you say?

d’Orsay can you say?

by | Jul 8, 2012 | Parenting

Last week we had the chance to visit the musée D’Orsay. I’ve been musing on one of our interactions with a French family ever since. A father with three children came up to us because we were obviously visitors and asked if he could speak with us for a...

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