Can you believe the summer is almost over? As most of you know, I took a leave of absence of sorts this summer as I try to figure out the future Keeping Mommy Sane goes from here. I’m still gnawing on things a bit, and have some stuff I want to work out, so I […]
A Love Letter to LEGO
Note: This post was originally published in October 2012. Dear LEGO: I am writing this on behalf of my son, who is truly your biggest fan. Seriously. He really is. It’s funny, he was never really into Duplos and was only mildly interested in the larger Lego blocks (aside from the time when he was […]
Why We Love Story Land
Note: This post was originally published on August 8, 2013. Like most kids who grew up in New England, my family and I went to Story Land in Glen, N.H. It’s like a childhood rite of passage in our area. My little sister and I rode on tea cups and got our photo taken with […]
A Letter to my Daughter on Her 5th Birthday
Dear Mimi, Today you are five years old. Five. One whole hand, you like to say. In the blink of an eye, you have gone from a sweet, good-natured baby to a cuddly and precocious toddler to an inquisitive and headstrong preschooler to an increasingly adventurous — and independent — almost-kindergartner about to lose her […]
Heartbroken
I can’t believe I’m writing this post. I mean, I knew this is something I’d have to write about someday. But “someday”…well, that’s a pretty obscure concept, isn’t it? Someday isn’t a real day. Someday isn’t actually today. Or yesterday. Or a few days ago. Because instead of someday, we said a sudden and heartbreaking […]
My Kiddo’s New PR {Special Guest Post}
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, friends! On Saturday, Buddy and I ran our second 5K together (here’s the recap of the first race). I was planning to write a recap when I thought, Why not let him tell you himself how the race went? And so I’m excited to introduce my 9-year-old as today’s guest blogger, who […]
When I Grow Up (Part 2)
Ever watch your child do something and suddenly something clicks and you feel like you’re getting a glimpse of what he or she might be when they’re all grown up? It happened a few years ago (see the first installment of When I Grow Up, which I published two years ago, almost exactly to the […]