the beatles: the love we make

“And in the end, the love we take will be equal to the love we make.”
~ The Beatles
You may have guessed by the name of this site that I am a Beatles fan. This quote is one of the [...]

Chelsey from The Paper Mama, a beautiful mother, artist and inspiring blogger, is conducting a self-photo challenge in the name of self-love. Because it’s that time of year.
Mandy from A Sorta Fairytale wrote a post called Take pictures of yourself. It’s important. She says: When [...]

When I was a young girl, I had a play kitchen in a corner of our basement. I would create an entire “house” down there. It was dark, dank and made of concrete, but it was mine. I decorated it just the way I wanted with doilies and dolls and dandelions [...]

“To see a rainbow, you must survive the rain.”
~anonymous
Without the lows, would we know the highs? Without the pauses between the notes, would we still have a song? Without winter, would there be a summer?
We can know this is true, that we need the [...]

She started out like this.
As my doula pointed out, she joined us peacefully and without hesitation. I will never forget the power behind her birth, nor the intensity of the pain, nor the completeness and immediacy of my love for her. The doctor handed her over and I thought, [...]

“Home is wherever I’m with you.”
~ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
We spent the quiet week between Christmas and New Years packing up our beloved townhome and moving to a big old Victorian house nearby. I dreamt of this home, and now it is a part [...]

My sweet baby girl is almost 2. In the past few months, a lot has changed. She’s talking in full sentences and asking for what she wants (usually with “I need” rather than “I want”). Her strong will has developed into an iron one and so we have no shortage of [...]
whine less, breathe more

“Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours.” – Swedish proverb
My husband and I are on a campaign to whine less.
We all have bad days. Whining is a comforting habit, [...]

This is the 300th post at lucille in the sky. Congratulations to me!
The day was a rainy one, as they usually are. We were huddled in C’s cozy apartment, which was so warm it was like an invisible bonfire burned in the middle of [...]

Three years ago, James and I fell in love, or at least started to, on Halloween. Two years ago, I was pregnant on Halloween. We dressed up as a priest and a pregnant school girl. Last year, I wore cat ears while Emile went trick or treating and called it good. [...]
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