by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 23, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Last week I downsized our extensive marker, colored pencil and crayon collection from out of control back to approaching reasonability. A friend and the preschool made out quite well (although how many of the markers—at our house, the friend’s house and...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 26, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
I know that for myself, I have this wish to be completely, entirely, one thousand percent present for my children. And, at the same time and diametrically opposed, I totally want to flee sometimes. To add to this confusion, I know that such unconditional and...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 28, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about mistakes. Parents spend an awful lot focused upon them (how many we make and how to help our kids feel okay about theirs). The role model of the first grade teacher misspelling something in the morning letter to class and...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Apr 2, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
After a three-day visit from my mom—one that involved some tasty cooking with the younger teen, some playing with the little girl and some clearing out of lots of stuff with me—we enjoyed a three-day visit by our lovely artist friend and then a weekend...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Apr 3, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
I’ve been a bit slower on the blog the past couple of weeks—freelancing, cleaning my house, this weekend just racing around from event to event to event—and while I want to write a short, smart essay to start the week off, that’s not happening....
