by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 18, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
By this fourth daughter, the one who now at age three executes diving somersaults off the couch rather than mere rolling somersaults, I really have fallen from the scheduled activity wagon. I know she’d enjoy music or dance or gymnastics (and in the fall, solemn...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 20, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
The minutiae of our daily lives—in this household with four children it’s piles (and piles and piles) of laundry, food that is amassed and cooked only to disappear again, tears and boredom and bad moods and waking up for school and getting to school and...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 22, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
The morning of May 19th a dozen plus one years ago, I kind knew one baby (gender yet unspecified) was about to arrive. Nothing more than cramps, but I suspected those cramps meant business. The sun shone, one of those achingly gorgeous May mornings. The toddler in my...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 24, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
There were all these May showers this week. More aptly, rain, enough so that when the sun returned, its golden orb’s brightness and warmth seemed startling. How quickly you can forget. I happen to enjoy the rain just fine. The year and a half we lived in London,...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 26, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Here’s a moment I loved today: two first grade girls stood—each holding a door—where the front hallway leads to the staircase and all the kids (and some parents and teachers) pour down the stairs as the school day officially begins. Rather than...
