Happy Mother's Day - The Dandelion Diary #1

Starting something new here that I've been piecing together in my head and memory book for a really long time - the dandelion diary. It's my effort at documenting pure unsullied stories of triumphs (mostly) and trials of motherhood in real time. I'm reaching out to other practising moms so we revel in sisterhood by learning from each other and affording room for mistakes as we continue to raise humans without a manual.

Motherhood is my forte said no mom ever. This is a gig that keeps you grounded like no other. The minute you start to swell with delirious thoughts of  having it all together, it takes you along slippery slopes of anxiety you didn't even know existed. But when you look at the fortune that sits safe in your lap, the tantrums on the floor and snarls in the hair seem inconsequential and darn rightly so.

A happy and fuzzy mother's day to my fellow egg keepers.

Let's cherish these little humans and their tenaciously transforming world as hard as it might get every other minute. 

Let's live to learn and learn to live vicariously through them between these crazy yet comforting pages of life.

Let's log our journeys because each day is a disguised milestone and one day when they are all grown up and away, these stories are gonna be the best balm we could buy have at hands to soothe our aching spirits.

Changing rooms are for aerial yoga, demonstrated here by my threenager. Or maybe she just wanted to be carried in the middle of shopping, who knows!  :)

Back in a minute

xo Renee

The Snow Dream

Howdy...All well I hope. So it might even be safe to say that I have settled in a bit after my first fly out of the year in January. I might be doing this a bit late, but I must because it was just too dang good not to share.

Although any travel of mine borders a bit on excitement and unease, this time I really wanted to embrace the cloud and cold.  I really did. That could be the reason I've been incessantly daydreaming of snow since fall last year. We arrived in Marburg for our little vay-cay and days flew by but the talk/sight of snow evaded us. I was almost coming around to deal with it's not gonna happen, is it?  Then one night husband and I decided to dress warm, horse around downtown and get high like the in pre-Sara days while grandparents babysat, happily. We did all that and while walking home later (much later) I look up and catch these massive snowflakes making their way down, claiming us, trees and everything around pretty quick as if they were on some paint 'em white mission. All that I've been wanting was happening for me right there - the expected, unexpectedly.  In that moment, as I stood there with snowflakes in my hair, all I could think of was the law of attraction - Did my thoughts just create reality? Did I just bring about what I've been thinking about?
 

Taking Stock - December 2013

I have always wished December lasted longer because I'm super stoked about what it brings.... my little heart desires to live in the ho ho ho spirit forever. This year even more because I'm not the only kid in the house - they make everything more meaningful and fulfilling, don't they? So this is me sharing the pinch-me worthies of the season before it's over.... 

Wander, Weather and Wine

Hey home girl, hope you are well. I just wanted to touch base real quick and let you know what I've been up to. Well, the big words for me at the moment are jet lagged, winded, under the weather but mostly thankful. A nasty ass flu took possession of me three weeks ago and it just won't exorcise ....completely anyway. It's going in circles between the three of us for quite some time now. To make the status quo not any better, I also had to deal with an annoying tooth situation for a while before I could do something to fix/heal/recover.  I'm usually not this fragile but life is throwing me some curves right now. But this too shall pass....Welp!!!