The MotherVerse Blog: mothering out loud

 
It’s officially the shopping season and I haven’t bought one present yet. To fully confess, I’ve barely even started to think about it. For now, I’m going to post this love poem, finish stacking the firewood and make some soup. By then it will be early afternoon and the sun will be starting to set.  […]

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the holidays.  In past years, I’ve felt like my values are tossed out the door for the month of December, culminating in a Christmas celebration that is gluttonous, highly packaged and commercialized.  Sure, we’ve had lots of good family time and many laughs.  But we’ve also had […]

Have you ever thought that your children may not understand all of the words that you use? Sometimes when they think that you said something causes them to worry a great deal , needlessly. The worries of a child are just as important to them as yours are to you.
A case in […]

Patti was a very self sufficient child! She is the oldest of my three children.
Because her birthday is New Years Eve she was still five years old when she started school in September. That was the last day her birthday could be to start school that year
The first […]

So, what will you tell those well meaning, truly generous, but not quite informed family members about what holiday presents to bestow upon your glorious children? It is a difficult dance, not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also not wanting the mouth, so to speak, to be full of lead, […]

As we all know, having a baby changes our lives dramatically. You no longer sleep like you used to, and at times, you can no longer do things that you used to do.
I gave up reading when I started popping out baby after baby until there were three. I also gave up journaling when I […]

Katy Farber sent along a link to her safe toy blog Non-Toxic Kids yesterday and I wanted to get it up for all of you to check out. Katy has some really smart well-researched information on her blog. Here is a quote from one of her recent posts…
“As if all the recalls and the worries […]

The last month has been such a rich and blessed time that I have hardly had the heart to sit and write. Life is so full and present and flowing that to try to place even a hair of it down on the page, with these little black figures grouped against the white, feels sacrilegious. […]

Happy belated Thanksgiving to all of you wonderful Mama’s out there!
Here in the Webster household, holidays of any kind are connected with an art project or two. Creating together as a family is a bonding experience. One of these days I want to create a bumper sticker that says Families that create together stay together…or […]

My mom is big into family tradition. When we were little, Mom would gather her three toe-heads and drive to China Town in San Fransisco the day after Thanksgiving so we could buy inexpensive Christmas gifts for our family and friends.
She decided to carry our tradition on here in Idaho. The day after Thanksgiving, we’d […]