by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 27, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
When my eldest two guys were small, like preschool and kindergarten small, they had a grand plan to marry each other and move to New York City where they’d live in the fire station near Broadway. The eldest was going to work on Broadway by night, and be a...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 24, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Early this week I wrote—I think too harshly—about struggles over a particular bedtime. In the piece, I wrote about how much I worry that what I have to offer my second guy—the one we like to call Bunbun the Middle One—is not, ever, never...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 30, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Last summer, inspired by Damaris, I copied her. She’d written a summer wish list. I wrote a summer wish list. Given that it was pretty fun to dream about things I hoped to do and that are fun to do, I decided to do it again. One nice thing about this year is...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jul 1, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Truthfully, reentry—the dear spouse returned from his week traveling for work—hasn’t been going terribly well. After putting the little gal to bed—she was excited to see him so it took him a while to get her settled—he did not leap up at...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jul 4, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Now that I’ve been making lists in blog posts this week, I have a few more lists swirling in my head. This is not surprising. I always have a few lists going: the to-do list, the what stories I might do next list, the who to hit up for money for __ organization...
