The Balancing Act

Feb 9

Feb 9 Wake Up Calls

Ava, Attachment Parenting, Balance, Family, Emilio, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting

“…and there I found myself on the couch with both these small people cuddled on me. It felt like exactly where I was supposed to be. Exactly where I am.”

Dec 13

Dec 13 Parenting is awesomely hard

Adrienne Barnard

Attachment Parenting, Balance, Family, Life Coaching, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting, Photography, Working Mama

Parenting is so much more than you can recognize and realize before you become one. It is so much more than you know even as you’re in the midst of it. And it is hard.

Sep 11

Sep 11 Delicious

Adrienne Barnard

Ava, Balance, Family, Emilio, Fathers, Groundlessness, Home, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting

The delicious life that is created amongst the everyday.

Aug 7

Aug 7 Sitting in the Nest

Adrienne Barnard

Attachment Parenting, Balance, Groundlessness, Home, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting, Working Mama

What is mothering and how do we value our roles and ourselves?

Jun 27

Jun 27 About Moving

Adrienne Barnard

Balance, Groundlessness, Home, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting

“Right now I'm listening to Atlantic Rhythm and Blues and thinking about time, and experiences and where you go on your journey through life….”

Apr 27

Apr 27 Credit where it's due.

Adrienne Barnard

Ava, Attachment Parenting, Family, Groundlessness, Home, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting

How kids teach us what The Secret sold to us, with a story about pink cake.

Dec 29

Dec 29 Take it all, to do it right

Adrienne Barnard

Attachment Parenting, Balance, Emilio, Groundlessness, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting, Sleep

There are some devastating aspects of parenting.

Nov 13

Nov 13 The Blue Spruce

Adrienne Barnard

Attachment Parenting, Ava, Balance, Fathers, Family, Grief, Groundlessness, Home, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting

"I stood where my Dad took his last breath. I stood and held you, my growing child and felt your breathing. Your steady, consistent, sleeping breath. I know how fragile life is. And I don't run away from it. You can't. Isolation is more painful than living and loving deeply knowing it can all be gone far sooner than you'd expect, or want, or think. "...