This was our first glimpse of Ian’s love for Step In Time. That was six months ago. We hadn’t watched it in quite a while. Yesterday, while out for our daily jog (yes, my two year old jogs about ten blocks a day-he’s got a LOT of energy), Ian decided that an apartment building’s landing […]Read Post ›
Tomorrow, I will have had no refined sugar for one month. What I’ve gained is sanity, greater nutrition, and an abundance of food sharing with my toddler (and he shared his cold with me-lucky mama). What I haven’t lost is weight. Not that I was quitting sugar so I could lose weight but ya know, […]Read Post ›
I habitually listen to The Mental Illness Happy Hour. That and running are all I have in terms of a spiritual practice these days (although one could argue praying all day about how to manage being a decent parent counts as spiritual). The podcast, as you can probably imagine, is striking in it’s honesty and […]Read Post ›
Our first medical emergency. We made it over 2 1/2 years! Cottage Time was over. One of Ian’s teachers asked me to show him what was in his pocket. Out came one yellow bead, one green bead, and one blue bead. The thought of “Oh shit he could choke on those or stuff […]Read Post ›
I know I complain about the sun, and you hear me rejoice when there is any cloud cover. I’ve lived in sunny sunny sunny Los Angeles for thirteen years and I still can’t believe it because I HATE the sun and yet, here I am. And my husband’s from PALM SPRINGS (which may as well […]Read Post ›
Mandy Unruh 