by Dawn | Jun 2, 2015 | parenting
It’s a beautiful afternoon. Our friends came to see our new chickens, and we delayed doing homework. We said goodbye and walked back toward the house. Declan picked a handful of tall grass. He put it in his mouth. “Don’t put plants in your...
by Dawn | Aug 3, 2013 | family
I am coloring with Declan. We are making trees. I start to make my usual tree, which will emerge with owls, a couple of flowers, a graveyard off in the distance, and maybe a kid fishing by a stream. The kid might even fall in. I never finish the picture. I never...
by Dawn | Dec 10, 2012 | family
Each year, we put up the Christmas tree. Each year, we have the tree fight. It has been this way since the dawn of mankind. When I was little, we’d tag the tree and later in the season, we’d cut the tree down. Some years our tree would be there, others it...
