It’s a funny thing about parenthood: the moment you have a child, you turn into a clown. No matter how rational a person you are, no matter how deliberate and dignified, the moment it’s just you and your kid, you turn into Mr. Napkin Head. This was something I didn’t expect. Baby talk is one…
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Bring It On
a child’s prayer Originally uploaded by nancybcrow It’s 9p.m. on a choir night, and I’m upstairs on bedtime duty while Christian makes tomorrow’s lunches. I hear the TV go on. “Christian,” I say in That Voice (you know the one). He knows that tone. “There’s something on the news I’ve got to watch for work,”…
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Late on a Wednesday evening, past time for bed on a choir night, I went around the first floor finding things I could dispose of or put away quickly—a probably futile attempt to render the mess less intimidating when I set out to clean for real the next day. I flipped shut the scrapbook on…
Read MoreYou Know You Need A New Wardrobe When…
You know you need a new wardrobe when your not-quite-4-year-old daughter has this to say about it!
Read MoreIt’s Santa’s Fault (a study in parentheticals)
Image via Wikipedia Last night, we left the house for choir practice at 6:35p.m., leaving the all-important Music List lying on the kitchen table, which led to me being roundly mocked by one of the basses, who thinks we play fast and loose with the lists anyway. (“They’re more like guidelines,” we like to joke.)…
Read MoreHeavenly Peace
I hurry up the stairs, en route to some vitally unimportant and ultimately forgettable task…and I’m caught by an angelic glow at the end of the hallway, in Alex’s room, where Julianna is sleeping… I tiptoe in, my heart squeezing at the sight of “heavenly peace” … her hair fanned out on the pillow, half…
Read MoreHolding on to the Mystery
I’m beginning to realize how brief is the period of time in which the kids both understand the magic and believe in it. We spend so much time trying to get kids to grow up–talking responsibility, bigness, and so on–that it’s hard to switch gears and ask them to stay little so that things like…
Read MoreMotherhood Moments in Pictures
One thing about Advent activities: it translates to a lot of “moments” with your children. Moments like feeding goats, camels, and a wildebeest (I kid you not): Moments like watching my son ride a camel: Or how about getting to share a brand new baby cousin with them? Then there are the ubiquitous pictures with…
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For today’s Thursday Motherhood Moment, I present a “caption this photo!” contest. (Disclaimer: I have absolutely no idea what sort of prize I can offer. Maybe a free copy of my book? My eternal gratitude? 🙂 ) Anyway, here you go. Have fun! Caption away, folks! (For what it’s worth, we know it’s a sign for something,…
Read MoreA Writer Mama’s Motherhood Moment
(Try saying that ten times in a row.) Scene: Monday of Advent, week 1, at the Basi home. I am scheduled to be interviewed by the SonRise radio program early in the morning, during that nebulous half- to 3/4-hour between breakfast and Julianna getting on the bus. So I put on Signing Times, which plays on…
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Kathleen M. Basi 