by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 2, 2013 | Standing In The Shadows
I can’t really stay away. This week has been notably busy, with family and holiday brunch and visiting and a deadline and you know, kids small to teens and a certain dear husband’s snowy birthday. The house was notably tidy when we hosted our brunch. The...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 4, 2013 | Standing In The Shadows
Well, Happy New Year, blog-reading friends! Written on Tuesday, it’s a Wednesday—technical difficulties and all that stuff, but I still hope this New Year started off just beautifully. Monday morning, I made my New Year’s Resolutions. A week or so...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 8, 2013 | Standing In The Shadows
My preschooler’s favorite gifts from the holidays include a mini-Imelda case full of plastic high heeled shoes, Barbie—and her pink unicorn, lest she just stand there being pretty (my husband’s addition, the unicorn, for this very reason)—a...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 10, 2013 | Standing In The Shadows
2013 has begun with a lot of around the kid time, a fair bit of work, a newfound addiction to the very stressful, heart-pumping Homeland (eight episodes in, being watched with the eldest son while I work out on the elliptical; we’ve watched just about every...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 15, 2013 | Standing In The Shadows
I see London, I see France; I see Barbie’s… bustier? You don’t have to imagine my surprise to discover that Saskia’s Pink Princess Barbie wears lingerie. I wrote all about it on Kveller. Her bustier really gets in the way of all my childhood...