Our dining room table is gone now. Tim sold it to a couple off Craigslist. When I came home from lunch with the girls, the house looked so empty. "Did you take a picture of it, by chance?" I asked him, wistfully. I haven't written much about the process of selling our things because I […]
LAST WEEK, we read "Charlotte's Web" in two days. The next two days after that, we read "The Secret Garden." Now, we're on Chapter 8 of "Ramona Quimby, Age 8" (I think that's my favorite book in the series). TODAY, we are almost completely out of groceries. We ate the last piece of fruit in […]
The secret is out (knees knocking, heart pounding). And now we have 1 million things to do (not exaggerating). Thank you to everyone for your overwhelming support. We read every comment, every e-mail, every tweet - and we are so encouraged by you. Several of you have asked about the fate of Metropolitan Mama. The […]
Our 3-year-old was talking to one of her friends on the phone this week: “Our plan is to sell our house, live in an RV, and help lots of people and all of the kids who don’t have food.” She said it so confidently, so excitedly. She said it with sparkling eyes, with adventure in […]