March 2012
18 posts
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Socrates
(via Great Mind Quotes)
February 2012
28 posts
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Brett is traveling on business and we are all beside ourselves.
Exhibit A:
I picked up Harper from school and she just looked at me. “It’s tough without Daddy around.” (He had been gone about 12 hours.)
Exhibit B:
Clyde looks up at Brett and my engagement picture. “I want to hold that.”
He climbed onto the couch and proceeded to stare at it with this look on his...
“It really is horrifying that Kanye West got not only more flack, but a worse...”
– vuhnessah (via youveescaped)
Harper: Is daddy going to be home when we get there?
Me: No, he’s teaching tonight. (realizing she doesn’t know what he teaches) He teaches comedy improv. It’s kind of like teaching people how to be funny.
Harper (completely incredulous): He’s TEACHING that?? He’s TEACHING people how to be FUNNY. Me: Well yeah. Sort of.
Harper: I should do that when I grow...
WatchGet through this without crying, I DARE YOU. Pitbulls get such a bad rap, they are amazing.
Me: Harper, do you think we’re going to be good friends when you’re older?
Harper: Let me whisper something to you.
She comes over and leans into my ear.
Harper: (whispering) I’m going to marry you.
Me: (laughing) You can’t marry me. I’m your mother. And I’m married to your father.
Harper: Nooo. You adopted that guy!
Me: I adopted him??
Harper: I...
“In my opinion the best thing you can you do is find a person who loves you for...”
– Juno (via myquotelibrary)
This has worked out very well for me.
Harper's quotes of the week
Every moment that we haven’t done yet is the future. I’M IN THE FUTURE! I’m in the future that we haven’t done yet!
Oh mom, I forgot to tell you. I like boys better than girls. Except you. I like you better than boys.
(at least 20 times a day): Mama, I’m Captain Barnacle and I’m not feeling well, okay?
Cheryl Strayed is maybe my favorite author. I just stumbled on this essay she wrote about being a mother and a writer, which obviously is in my wheelhouse. Read the whole piece, but here is a snippet:
“My mother never met her grandson. She died young, when I was twenty-two and she was forty-five, and her death has been my life’s greatest sorrow. Before I had my son, every time I made a...
