Many reasons to be grateful today: August is so ready for some friends and a schedule. He loved his art school in San Francisco and I know he’s going to thrive at real preschool. Circle time! Playing with new kids! Eating lunch without his mama! (And then going home with her 15 minutes later…) It’s going to be so good. I’m thankful that for every moment in my life where I’ve been as afraid as August is about his first day at a new school with new friends and new teachers, I’ve … [Read more...]
Today I'm guest-posting at Christianity Today's Women's Blog: Her.menutics. The piece is called "One Thousand Gifts, Reconsidered: A second take on Ann Voskamp's bestseller about gratitude." As if you really wanted to hear me go on and on about One Thousand Gifts some more... Please? Don't you want me to go on and on a little more? Read it here. Love, Micha … [Read more...]
That’s why I have this list: Is there a better way to love your friend than to fly to her home in a cool city that you never get to see because you’re stuck in her air conditioned (PTL!) apartment for three days helping her feed, clean and tuck in her kids? Cat Prewitt is a hero who deserved a much cooler vacation this past weekend. But she made my birthday full of sweetness. (Also, she took August to the store to buy cake mix and they made me a birthday cake while I read the newest issue … [Read more...]
It’s always a little bit awkward to tell people it’s your birthday. That’s because their reaction to hearing such a thing (if they didn’t already know it) is either pity or guilt. I don’t want strangers to feel sorry that I don’t have any one to celebrate with me. I also don’t want friends to feel guilty that they didn’t know. That’s a great thing about Facebook, right? You don’t have to shout your birthday from the mountaintops. It does it for you. Then you get birthday … [Read more...]
We have a new poem, dear memorizing friends. I know you always think I've forgotten. But I really haven't. I'm just waiting and thinking. (Or, more likely, distracted by everything else in my life that's not poetry.) Did you know that I love Emily Dickinson? I love her for being so very weird. I love her freaky white dress she wore as a "recluse" and the apocryphal treats she lowered to children in a basket from her window when she was a bit too anxious to leave her room. I love her for … [Read more...]
Last night I stumbled on Jennifer Fulwiler's recent post, "Stay-at-Home Moms Need Help" on the National Catholic Register (she also blogs at Conversion Diary). In it, Jennifer is asking the question of whether it's self-indulgent for a woman who stays home to have help with housekeeping or childcare. I thought what she had to say was too good to not be discussed: When I studied anthropology in college, one of the things that stood out to me the most was the element of community: In pretty much … [Read more...]
Last night I stumbled on Jennifer Fulwiler's recent post, "Stay-at-Home Moms Need Help" on the National Catholic Register (she also blogs at Conversion Diary). In it, Jennifer is asking the question of whether it's self-indulgent for a woman who stays home to have help with housekeeping or childcare. I thought what she had to say was too good to not be discussed: When I studied anthropology in college, one of the things that stood out to me the most was the element of community: In pretty much … [Read more...]
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