Shona Sorensen
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Mar 17
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Yesterday afternoon I made slice-and-bake sugar cookies, and then I set some vanilla frosting, green food coloring, green sugar sprinkles, and green glitter icing on the counter so that the kids and I could decorate some fun cookies for St. Patrick’s Day. I figured we’d get this done the day before, so that today there’d …
Jan 21
Probably Not the Post You’ve Been Waiting For
If I had never initiated Emrick’s transition out of a crib, he might still be in one. He seemed happy in his crib and he never tried to climb out of it. Consequently, he was well past his third birthday before we moved him, and even then, we did so only because we felt that …
Sep 06
Happy Birthday to Holly!
Our Holly Belle turns two years old today, and I don’t know how to write about her. It isn’t that I have nothing to say, it’s that I have SO MUCH to say. Every time I think about doing a blog post about her, I feel overwhelmed because there is just so much about her …
Aug 31
Emrick: Inside the Mind
I had the following conversations with Emrick, just today: CONVO 1 Me: I was just looking at pictures of you when you were little. Emrick: Why? Me: Because that’s what mommies do. Emrick: Yeah, that’s right, Mommy. They look at pictures of their beautiful babies when they were little. ______________________ CONVO 2 Emrick: Mommy, do …
Jun 13
So.
I guess it has been a while since I posted. For some reason, the energy and motivation to do it are lacking. But maybe I can turn that around. I have lots of pictures, going back a year or two at least, that have never been posted. I would like to make it a summer project …
Mar 07
Holly is 18 Months Old/Happy Birthday to Me!
Holly turned 18 months old yesterday, the same day that I turned… well, the same day that I had a birthday. She is truly amazing. She is smart, stubborn, adventurous and loud. And she is so vocal. She is talking a lot now, though her speech is almost exclusively single words — nouns, of course. She says …
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