by Robin | Oct 28, 2012 | Adventures in Germany, Favorite things, Home, Kids, Life with boys, Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal
snow fall and tear drop No matter the number of children you deliver, how can it be that each is your favorite, for reasons as many and varied as the things that shade their differences? Intense and deep affection, seemingly dulled by the dailiness of living, is...
by Robin | Oct 15, 2012 | Family, Memoir, Mom stuff, Personal
"I wish the world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you are…I'm coming home now." ~ Felix Baumgartner, his last words before jumping from the edge of space Felix...
by Robin | Sep 1, 2012 | (in)courage, Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal
I don't see it coming when it happens– Time plays tricks on me. The catalyst? My children, a l w a y s m y b a b i e s. In front of Herrenchiemsee, King Ludwig II's New Palace, on Lake Chiemsee in Southern Bavaria,...
by Robin | Aug 19, 2012 | Memoir, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Personal
There is this moment, this really good moment, and I want to capture it the way you can hold memory forever in a picture. We're just riding, leaving the place she had chosen for her birthday dinner, where fate would have it that it was just a...
by Robin | Aug 13, 2012 | Family, Kids, Life with boys, Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting
“What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.” ~ Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding My all-time favorite picture of Thomas, back in the olden days of...
by Robin | Jul 31, 2012 | Adventures in Germany, Beauty, Family, Memoir, Personal, Traveling Red Dress
A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. ~ Marion C. Garretty {continued from A Modern-day Fairytale} "One ringy-dingy…" She used to sit on the toilet – lid down – an adoring audience of one. I was the...