by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Aug 16, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
It’s that moment in summer when the light shifts and September looms and I’m definitely feeling as if I’ve done more chasing of my writer’s tail and juggling of my kids (not literally) than relaxing. As if with four kids and a...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Aug 17, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Don’t get me wrong. I love my co-op. Tuesday evening, though, I zipped over radiating good intentions of the ten-items-or-less variety. Most pressing items were milk, lemons and sugar. The first was for the small gal’s bedtime routine. The second two...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Aug 21, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Self-portrait. If you know me or read my blog, this is mostly not new news. But this idea popped into my head, seemed fun—and boom, ping—here I go. I work most of the time standing up at my kitchen counter. The windows in front of me are the best, most...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Aug 24, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Four things about my four and a half year-old daughter are 1) she’s “learning to cooperate,” a line I fed her and she knows how to use in distressed moments of impending timeouts to signal her desire that she not receive the timeout, 2) she’s...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Aug 28, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Yesterday, I made four batches of jam: nectarine, wild Maine blueberry, peach and peach-jalapeño. Can I even admit that I have a few more peaches left? I’ll make one last run at jam today. I actually over-jammed. I hit jamming fatigue. I actually felt...
