GREEN ONE!!!! BAM!!!! Noah punches me in the arm. His strike is light, the appropriate amount of force applied when hitting your, ahem, mother. But still, I was annoyed. How many times do I have to tell you? I AM NOT PLAYING THAT GAME. “I know,” Noah says with a grin. “But I am.” The [...]
Summer has officially arrived and that means more togetherness than ever. The brothers, filled with wonder and joy about the possibility of each new day, have wasted no time making plans, enjoying friends, and pushing each other’s buttons as if the world’s rotation depended on a fresh spat every few hours. On the eve of [...]
Last evening at our local Borders I had the privilege to join Kristin Dunning (aka The Well Read Hostess) and 95.7 Ben FM’s Marilyn Russell in hosting author Kim Brittingham who read from her new book: Read My Hips: How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting and Live Large. The evening was a [...]
Today, after five grueling years of rigorous academia and the endless pursuit of fulfilling his life’s work, Chase is graduating from elementary school. And what a trip it has been. From the difficult lunchroom decisions as to whether to buy or bring on “Pizza Day” to the unsolved mystery of the missing 1000 pencils we [...]
Photo: Sarah Gervais “So, how was the writer’s retreat?” It seemed to be the question of the week and one that I have had trouble answering for a number of reasons. First, it really wasn’t a “writer’s retreat,” but that’s how I had described it to most of my peeps as I jetted off to [...]
During the hazy, sleepy plane ride home from Oregon on Sunday, my thoughts turned from my amazing time with The Tribe to my re-entry back into the life that was waiting for me. And my stream of consciousness led me to a pool of angst: There are only eight more days of school…. if the [...]
Happy Friday MoB! The post below comes from a colleague, Katja, mother to James, who touches on a topic near and dear to my heart: DANCING. Love to dance – but I never had the chance to really dance as a family. She may be onto something… read on. Share and Enjoy:
As we drove out of the swim club on Memorial Day, the boys and I decided that the Dairy Queen would be an appropriate detour before heading home. The plan required us to change course and, without a word, I took a left where we usually go straight and jumped on the highway towards our [...]
Sometimes the nicest gifts are the unexpected ones. I was unsure as to how fast (or even whether) a writer or two would raise their hands to help me establish a new rhythm here at Mothers of Brothers. Fully prepared to be an army of one, I began batch processing ideas for posts based on [...]
Unlike Jessie, opportunities for estrogen parties in my home are few and far between. But every two weeks, I break free of my Mothers of Brothers shackles and flee to the place where I can join my “sisters” in unity and celebrate all that is holy about the feminine mystique. I high tail it to [...]
