Heidi’s Blog
N is for Non-compliant
Today we attended our first Letter Land parade at school. Six classes of Kindergarteners paraded through the school, each one dressed as a letter in the alphabet. Every character in Letterland has a catchy name and a sound associated with it: Peter Puppy, Lucy...
This Mama Needs A Sabbatical
Not from motherhood. From her Smartphone. According to this article, a significant number of Smartphone users visit Facebook almost fourteen times a day. Surely my social media use isn't accurately reflected in this statistic. Is it? If I want a good barometer of my...
The Ten On Tuesdays: 10 Reasons Why We Love This Guy
Today's edition of the Ten on Tuesdays is all about the birthday boy... 1. You leave your Lego creations assembled and displayed prominently for all of us to enjoy. 2. You are a voracious reader, just like your parents. 3. You love the outdoors, which makes your Dad...
Are You Leaning In?
Sandwiched between the white smoke over the Vatican and the Supreme court's debate over marriage, the COO of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg released a new book, Lean In. While I'm not interested in stirring the pot on the long-simmering debate between working mothers and...
Five Minute Friday {Broken}
Broken. In our house, we lose our minds when something breaks. Whether it's a toy, a faucet, a torn page in a book... control freaks that we are, both the adolescent and adult variety, can't handle the chaos and uncertainty of brokenness. And if someone we love breaks...
The Ten on Tuesday
photo credit: compfight Ten things I learned when I woke up ten minutes before my children: 1. My morning starts off in a more peaceful fashion when I am first out of bed rather than last. 2. Breakfast was ready when the boys came downstairs and I was two steps ahead...
