by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 24, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Briefly, between some struggles in teen-dom and a three-year-old unable to fall asleep or tolerate staying in her room alone there’s a wee bit of overload going on around here. Add to that work, allergies and the September adjustment factor and yeah, overload....
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 25, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Here’s a moment in time: I’m listening to the rain; that’s because it’s so loud I cannot not listen. I know that sentence is grammatically incorrect. I have the overhead light on because it’s so dark outside and somehow this is making the...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 27, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
This week my eldest turned 16. How did that happen? How did that little babe with the giant eyes and owlish eyebrows from birth become tall and loud and crazy smart and funny and insecure and self-confident and more all at once? How did I go from being in my early...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 29, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
It seems every person has a few rules to live by, not of the golden rule variety but of the this-works-for-me ilk. Over the years, I’ve become a devotee to the three good things school of thought; that is, not so much about the number three than the belief that...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 2, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
I’m totally teen years—the biggest boy turned 16 this month—into parenting. The third guy just turned nine (!). Raising a family and being married is, on the one hand, everything I hoped it would be and completely different from what I imagined....
