by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 22, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Had I not had a third child, I might have missed the pleasure that is Mo WIllems’ Knuffle Bunny. I won’t even divulge the plot, nor the charming exclamations uttered by Trixie; I will say that the description of a young child’s meltdown—Trixie...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 24, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Dictionary: lu-lu (loo loo) any remarkable person or thing For whatever reason—as in, I have no idea—when I was pregnant with our second babe—gender unknown—we needed an in-utero nickname for her or him—him—and so we called the bump...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 27, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Beautiful Boy was the overly ambitious second book I took on vacation last year (the book itself wasn’t overly ambitious, the notion that I might read two books during one vacation with four kids was). During the post-school, pre-nap bottle with the toddler, I...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 29, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
As I’ve written about before, the idea that really anything about motherhood is definitely universal is, I think, false. Or more nearly, it’s so close to possibly true that one’s inclination is to make it so. Over and over, though, the more you...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 31, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Even though there seems to have been some spring summer confusion this glorious, often steamy May, what either season seems to agree upon is this: local food has arrived. Amidst the floral explosion this spring brought, the early green vegetables unearthed themselves...