Author: calm mama

conversation about god and other pronouncements

Driving home at dusk, the street lights are on. There are a few clouds in the darkening sky. Jonah says: There are two eyes in the sky. There is someone in the sky and he is saying something. God is…

snail condo

Combining my new photography skillz and new pet-keeping skillz in one swell foop! (We’re totally ready for chickens now, right?)

my to-do list

1. This blog needs an overhaul. Seriously. The platform behind this bad-boy is so old, there are dinosaurs in a room somewhere pushing rocks up a hill to power it. The guys at Bluehost weren’t even born yet. A redesign…

just a day

Need to get back into the habit of writing more often. Start with today, see what happens? Tonight I went to my first “Parents Action Group” meeting at the preschool. Maybe an agenda item should have been what to rename…

plane trip

Jonah’s been really into playing airplane travel lately. He gets my camera bag — which is about the size of a carryon for a toddler, and hangs it over his arm. Sometimes he fills it with the coins from his…