Could outdoor family adventure be the antidote to all of our problems? Yours and mine? When our family isn't regularly adventuring, I feel it on my nervous system—this itch, this annoyance that I can't quite pinpoint, this nagging dissatisfaction with life as a whole. Then we get outdoors, we …
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Sometimes at night I lie in the warmth of my bed and feel my thoughts creep up on me with a tightening grip. They should know better than to kick and shove each other during church... We really, like really, need to teach our oldest to tie his shoes. We have so many words to learn before the …
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It's February. Gone are the weekends when our toddler wakes up asking hopefully, expectantly, "Beach? Hike?" And a minute later, "Beach? Hike?" I know, darling girl. I want to get out too. But I'm running dry of ideas—things we can do even when it's cold or rainy—and we're all driving each other …
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"Santa bring me a pink scooter!!" Pause. "AND CANDIES!" This is my two-year-old speaking, her eyes wide as she stands on tiptoe in her excitement. She's insistent that Santa is bringing her a scooter and candy (her most favorite thing in the world!). ** Our seven-year-old counts his …
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Our Thanksgiving this year was low-key and warm and homey, or at least, as low-key as a Thanksgiving can be with young kids. The boys played outside with neighbors while I blended fresh cranberries and shaped the rolls. My husband and I argued over how to make the mashed potatoes (it's tradition), …
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The other day, a friend told me that it only took two days of walking her son into kindergarten before she was dropping him off at the curb and watching him bolt for the playground. In contrast, my husband and I spent our son’s entire year of kindergarten walking him to the door. I’d take him …
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