Everything Sam is wearing in this picture is a hand-me-down…including, I’m sure, the socks. Everything Sam is wearing today is a hand-me-down. Actually everything each of my children is wearing was once owned by someone else…or, in some cases, four or five someone-elses before them. If hand-me-downs were on Facebook, and they asked me to...Continue Reading
I’m so excited to have another little boy. Little boys are so much fun, so easy in all the ways girls are not. A friend of mine told me, “The problem with girls is that they grow into women. Know how high-maintence and petty and dramatic women can be? So are little girls.” What she...Continue Reading
So, Sam knows how to swim. It happened this week. And although I’d like to say that it happened instantly, it could also be that when the kids’ summer break started on MAY 19 (thanks a lot, private school), we’ve spent so much time in the pool, the kids may have also grown gills. But...Continue Reading
Well, folks, the Hergenraders may have a girly-girl. As Ellie approaches three, the signs are becoming obvious: a twenty minute process to choose her outfit …the careful way she holds herself…the way she seems to “float” when she walks…the insistence she comb her hair each morning AND wear some kind of decoration in it. The...Continue Reading
