by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 20, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Naptime has its inherent rituals. On the three afternoons Saskia’s been out for the morning at her most charming and perfect of preschools in the universe (Sunnyside Child Care Center—and believe me, I am not biased, I’m just telling the truth re:...
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...
