by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 14, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Post solo-parenting last week when three boys had the tummy bug and one energetic preschool girl didn’t, I am pretty kazausted, to quote one of my kids way-back-when. I’m just taking this moment to note we are often seem to take modern life like interval...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 20, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Because I walk my kids to the R42 bus each morning, I am definitely clear that autumn has actually arrived, if sometimes in soggier than usual form. The trees are working their jewel-toned magic, if a bit more slowly than usual. With her class, Saskia’s been...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 16, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Ant, aunt; po-tate-toe, po-ta-toe. ** Yesterday, taking advantage of the rain, his month of parental leave, and his father’s visit from the West Coast, my brother-in-law zipped out with carseat, diapers, bottles, change of clothing, family vehicle and infant in...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 23, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Yesterday in the slipstream of what runs down my Twitter stream like so much I have idea what, so many words and thoughts and witticisms, was this: yesterday NOW was calling a day in the blogosphere to love our bodies. I think I’m a day late, possibly a dollar...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 18, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
For parents, there are all stages of food from nursing or bottle feeding stories to the introduction of solid food to the interesting process of helping another person eat, attempt, enjoy, not throw, and appreciate food. I still remember speaking with one frustrated...
