I loved this. Thank you for the reminder to slow down where I can and celebrate some weird holidays. Also I swear that maple syrup thing is from Little House on the Prairie. I never tried it but always wanted to.
This is where I am. I cried at work yesterday. I never cry. But I was back at work after having to stay home with three kids the day before because my stay-at-home parent husband gotten a horrible fever and couldn't get out of bed. So I stayed home and tried to work and didn't do either well, so then I stopped working and got behind on work things and the kids work me up three times in the middle of the night. And then I got to work Wednesday morning and someone asked how I was and I cried. It is a hard season. But if I can take the hard parts on, surely my kids will know. May we find magical in this hard season. Also I still bite my fingernails.
Also what a wonderful gift - that email from Megan. We never know the ways in which people are thinking kindly about us. I was a playdate with a bunch of families from my kids' school and I couldn't get my kids to leave. It was dark and everyone was in their cars, and they just weren't listening to me. And wonderful kind Janelle, parent of Isaac and Eleanor, ran back from her minivan where she had successfully buckled everyone in and helped me get my kids in the car.
I've been hoping for the calendars announcement (but also know you are a human and maybe it wouldn't happen this year), so THANK YOU!
Also shout out to the "I love" shirts. I came into the living room yesterday where that shirt was laying on the back of the couch and my partner said he was looking at the shirt and thinking about how much joy I find in the world and how this brings him so much joy 😭💜 It was a pretty great moment and all because of your shirt! Thanks for bringing it into the world!
I really enjoyed pretending that lime was a lemon. I want that to be a holiday. I haven't been a hang up a calendar person for a while, but maybe that changes in 2025. I want to celebrate flowers and sun and leaves and winter feels. And I want to celebrate being grateful for Sophie day.
I am so excited about the PDF calendar option, thank you for thinking of us with overseas shipping.
November is always a darker season for me, I'm just about keeping my head above the darkness so far, in the moment at least. Carrying a background dark fuzz of wtfuckery, but battling on. Thank you for sharing and I hope you and your family (at home, chosen, and everyone here) are heading to some lighter seasons soon.
Oh, and I scrambled over to check when I read your post, and my languishing blogspot blog still exists? No ideas if there is a reason (mine was active 2009-2016? maybe it's a timing thing?), but just in case it's worth delving deeper into where yours has gone? Good luck!
Every time I read one of your posts, I think: I’m so grateful Sophie exists and that she writes for everyone . Because you could exist and just write for yourself. Which would be fine! But I am grateful to read it because you help me feel not so alone. So thank you!! 🩷
dear sophie,
thank you for all of this as always.
i love this (among many other words/concepts of yours that i love):
"And still, we wake up, we love each other. We try. We move through the seasons."
love
myq
I loved this. Thank you for the reminder to slow down where I can and celebrate some weird holidays. Also I swear that maple syrup thing is from Little House on the Prairie. I never tried it but always wanted to.
This is where I am. I cried at work yesterday. I never cry. But I was back at work after having to stay home with three kids the day before because my stay-at-home parent husband gotten a horrible fever and couldn't get out of bed. So I stayed home and tried to work and didn't do either well, so then I stopped working and got behind on work things and the kids work me up three times in the middle of the night. And then I got to work Wednesday morning and someone asked how I was and I cried. It is a hard season. But if I can take the hard parts on, surely my kids will know. May we find magical in this hard season. Also I still bite my fingernails.
Also what a wonderful gift - that email from Megan. We never know the ways in which people are thinking kindly about us. I was a playdate with a bunch of families from my kids' school and I couldn't get my kids to leave. It was dark and everyone was in their cars, and they just weren't listening to me. And wonderful kind Janelle, parent of Isaac and Eleanor, ran back from her minivan where she had successfully buckled everyone in and helped me get my kids in the car.
I've been hoping for the calendars announcement (but also know you are a human and maybe it wouldn't happen this year), so THANK YOU!
Also shout out to the "I love" shirts. I came into the living room yesterday where that shirt was laying on the back of the couch and my partner said he was looking at the shirt and thinking about how much joy I find in the world and how this brings him so much joy 😭💜 It was a pretty great moment and all because of your shirt! Thanks for bringing it into the world!
Dear Sophie
I adore the pigeon shirt. I regularly pop out on my balcony to say "Hello friend" to a perched pigeon.
The art in this issue is breath taking, Thanks Sophie.
I really enjoyed pretending that lime was a lemon. I want that to be a holiday. I haven't been a hang up a calendar person for a while, but maybe that changes in 2025. I want to celebrate flowers and sun and leaves and winter feels. And I want to celebrate being grateful for Sophie day.
I am so excited about the PDF calendar option, thank you for thinking of us with overseas shipping.
November is always a darker season for me, I'm just about keeping my head above the darkness so far, in the moment at least. Carrying a background dark fuzz of wtfuckery, but battling on. Thank you for sharing and I hope you and your family (at home, chosen, and everyone here) are heading to some lighter seasons soon.
Oh, and I scrambled over to check when I read your post, and my languishing blogspot blog still exists? No ideas if there is a reason (mine was active 2009-2016? maybe it's a timing thing?), but just in case it's worth delving deeper into where yours has gone? Good luck!
Love to all. x
Every time I read one of your posts, I think: I’m so grateful Sophie exists and that she writes for everyone . Because you could exist and just write for yourself. Which would be fine! But I am grateful to read it because you help me feel not so alone. So thank you!! 🩷