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It’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…
Read MoreCaption This Photo
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…
Read MoreOrdinary Beauty
It seems like I’m always looking for one moment each week that stands out, trying out and discarding so many that pierce me with their beauty, but which simply can’t be made to look profound or earth-shattering or anything other than exactly what they are: mundane, ordinary moments. And so this week, I dedicate my…
Read MoreAlex faces
He goes off to school now, and last night, as I lay awake thinking about him, I realized that he spends more of his day away from me than with me. He has a whole series of experiences every day that have nothing to do with me, experiences that I will never share, the way…
Read MoreThe Note
Alex was in trouble on Sunday. I’ll spare you the details, but suffice it to say the punishment involved the loss of music and movies for a whole week, and he was not happy. He disappeared into the basement for almost an hour, and when he came back up, he was classic five-year-old giggly, standing…
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Kathleen M. Basi 