About Me / Contact

An avid blog reader, I began this website to chronicle the life of my son and to have a place to write about the daily challenges of motherhood.  I love blogging as a time to write and reflect on some of life’s tiny little moments.  I spent 5+ years as a high school English teacher before I put away the textbooks to become a full-time mom to my sweet boy.  Teaching and mothering aren’t all that different….Sometimes you feel like you’re truly changing the world and sometimes you want to pull your hair out in raw-nerve frustration.  And also,  diapers and high school papers are both full of poo.

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I love party planning, words, ballet, books, and British poetry.  I sincerely enjoy spending time in the kitchen, and like many of my readers, we are on a “real food” journey around here.  I am passionate about breastfeeding, cloth diapering, buying organic, and some other “crunchy” things that leave me feeling lonely in the suburbs, but I also love my cupcakes and margaritas and admittedly drink far too much coffee.  I detest dragons, wizards, elves, space-travel, magic, and the like.  I am re-learning how to sew and I love creating all sorts of things from knitting projects to digital scrapbooks.  I also hit the road for new adventures with my little family, and I occasionally write about our travels here.

Above all else, I love my husband, Scott, and our sweet little Jude.  We can be found [usually] happy in our house with a porch in the woods.   A believer in informed parenthood, I hope to be a conscious mother who is really, truly present everyday amidst all the diapers and tantrums and laundry.  These days I can be seen reading about child development, discipline, crafting techniques, memoir, and occasionally relishing a novel when I am not cleaning paint off little fingers or wondering if it’s nap time yet.   In other words, I am all over the place all the time, but I’m enjoying the ride.

I love to hear from my readers.  If you’d like to chat about things I’ve written here or your ideas are a little long or personal for a comment, send me an email at mamathereader [at] gmail dot com .

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