Sarah Writes

Words from the vault

• Addendum to my life

  I look around the house and see pieces of my life that need fixing every day. The toilet runs downstairs. The wallpaper is only half-finished. The trim fell off the vent. It needs to be painted. There are no pictures on the walls. There is no room here complete. I want a deck. I want a garden. I wan

• Sweaty dish-balls...

  Okay, I know it's petty but I've got to talk about it for a minute. Just a minute.Dishes.First of all, it's ridiculously difficult to wash the dishes, wash A dish, when there's a one year old climbing in and out of the dishwasher. We are always on a backward schedule of dish cycles, where I have to

• Connections

  I've been making all of our family's bread now for several months. I try new recipes as I continue to abide by the old favorites. And recently I've become hooked on the "no knead" method. Which basically means that you let time do the work of kneading. Which means that for a day or so you have a mus

• Half-Drunk Challenge Entries

  Join us. Drink. Be Merry. Write. Go here AND here for some info. Then LINK UP and join in the fun.

• Should you judge a book (or your sister) by its cover?

  I received an e-mail from a friend a few nights ago that brought me back to summer vacation, almost five years ago. Not to the beaches or sitting in a hammock reading, or to introducing B to his extended family for the first time. But to a time when I was in judgment of my sister's behavior. Toward

• 101 Things About Sarah, by Sarah

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• Need some advice

  Okay, friends. Today's post is not about pretty writing and aha! moments. I need some advice. Here are the details: On Monday afternoon I took the boys to the grocery store. There was a sale on Crayola products in the aisle of the frozen foods section. Go figure. In an effort to quiet the beasts,

• Mother to three boys - Just thinking out loud again

  I started an email response to Shawna, who commented on my last post, Thinking Out Loud. The email got so long and so intense that even though I continued writing, I had decided to post it on the blog as a direct reply to Shawna's comment - because sometimes it's just strange to privately respond to

• Perspective

  Max is two. Officially. But almost-nearly-not-quite three. He has a bump on his tummy next to his navel. It comes and goes, protruding a barely noticeable amount one day and becoming an alarming size the next. We don't know what it is. The doctor doesn't know what it is. And in common terms, it's fr

• Behind the Scenes: Brilliant Minds

  sarah (11:48:24 AM): r u there god, it's me Margaret? jen (11:48:37 AM): just call me sheila the great. sarah (11:48:56 AM): well, we made it to nearly noon before gettin the IM bug jen (11:49:02 AM): not bad! sarah (11:49:11 AM): does that make all THREE of my boys Fudge? jen (1