And Know Katrina Writes
It's a blog where I share things that happen in my life with my family. Also when I see something on someonelse's blog that I think my readers would want to read about I post about that too.
It's a blog where I share things that happen in my life with my family. Also when I see something on someonelse's blog that I think my readers would want to read about I post about that too.
Emi is ambivalent. She is five years old, losing her baby-fat and gaining the responsibilities of a kindergartener. At school she loves the thrill of being in "K," though she is anxious over the newness of it all. At home, she revels in her status as an older sibling even as she is bitterly jealous about having to share me with her brother.
Inspired by another "Dream Big" Mama, Brianna Grant turned a running concept into a reading experience. With determination and endurance, she blazed her own trail and finished strong with We Are Girls Who Love to Run.
When my oldest son started his first day of Kindergarten I, like many mothers, cried the minute he sat down in his classroom. He was a big boy now. He was entering a new phase in his life, yet I still remember the first day I held him in my arms as a newborn.
I can smell something in the next county. I can detect unseen mold under a bathtub mat. I can sniff out spoiled milk from behind refrigerator doors. Like any superpower, this particular trait can sometimes be a gift, and sometimes a curse.
Is there something the matter with me? As a wife? Because here’s the thing: I don’t always like to do my “wifely duty.”
We thought it would be fun to ask a few of our favorite blogging friends to recap their year. One of our foodie friends, Brooke of Tongue-N-Cheeky shares her retro favorites from 2009.
I'm going to confess something that might sound shocking coming from a writer who often takes as her subject the complex and sometimes dark experience of mothering young children . . .