by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Feb 9, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Just to be clear, my house on a Monday morning (or pretty much any morning) has a layer of detritus, not evenly spread across the floor, but still… strewn about. Strewn is such a nice word for the reality, which is displeasing mess. The cubby is an oasis. The...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Feb 17, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
It’s kind of like this: you start out as a parent with the most precious, delicate, special baby in the world. Time passes. The baby is dropped—and still okay, or dirty—and still okay, or bites someone or is bitten—and still okay. For most...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Feb 11, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
The week we’re in goes like this: the census defines fathers caring for their children as babysitting and mothers caring for their children as parenting. It’s February 2012. Yes. The Catholic Church is pitching a giant hissy fit about contraception, trying...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Feb 25, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
For the daughter of a Free-to-be-You-and-Me loving gal there are an awful lot of glittery shoes and frothy skirts and fashion girl stickers and some serious Disney Channel action going on around here. My newly minted four year-old-daughter’s all about “my...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Feb 13, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Here’s what you can learn about yourself at 3:30 in the morning when you hear your just-turned-four year-old daughter coughing a wet, croupy, not quite seal barking cough and your dear husband is out of town and you didn’t sleep hardly a wink the night...
