Motherhood & Family
Fond Memories of Grandpa
Why a photograph of Grandpa kept in the closet works as a daily mental-health boost, and how to recreate the memories that steady you on hard days.
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Marriage, children growing up, grandparents, family history, and the ordinary domestic chaos in between.
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Mom(my)
The day the oldest stops saying Mommy and starts saying Mom, what that small edit does to a mother, and the connection she is determined to keep.
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Voque Parody- 73 Questions
Seventy-three rapid-fire questions answered candidly, from the coffee order to the tattoos, as a way to get to know the person behind the blog.
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Fishing is fun (and other not so true stories at our house)
An ordinary afternoon of tree-cutting and fishing turns into exactly the kind of controlled chaos that passes for a normal day at the Bird house.
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Love Letter to the Sellers of our Current Home
The letter the Bird family wrote to the sellers of the house they hoped to buy, and everything that home came to mean after a year of cancer.
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Blogger Recognition Award
How this blog began as an outlet during an aunt’s cancer diagnosis and then her own, plus two pieces of advice for anyone starting to write.
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Life Without (a Dad)
A novel about a father and daughter sets off an honest reckoning with growing up without a dad, and with forgiveness that keeps being tested.
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Age Is Just A Number, but…
A WEEZER concert sets off a candid reflection on getting older, changing in the mirror, and measuring age by living rather than by the number.
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Snow White? Nope.
A new house, a bird feeder, and the discovery that being surrounded by nature is not quite the Disney scene it looks like from the kitchen window.
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Sunshine Blogger Award- First Award. Yay!!
Accepting a first blogging award, answering eleven questions candidly, and passing it on to the writers who made that corner of the internet good.
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Vulnerable Words
The moment a grandmother’s phone call revealed that the adults you look up to are frightened too, and a grandfather quietly having a stroke.
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A Strong Woman Deserves a Strong Man
A Valentine’s Day reflection on a marriage tested by illness and hard years, and what it looks like to keep choosing each other through the chaos.
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What is an Amanda-ism? Really.
What an Amanda-ism actually is: the clumsy, bumbling moments that started with a best friend and became the running joke of this whole blog.
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Introduction of my very own blog
The very first post: why Amanda Bird started writing publicly about her life, and what she hopes these words might do for anyone reading them.
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New Car, Meet Deer. No joke.
One mile from home in a brand-new car, a deer steps out. A short, funny account of how day one with the new family vehicle actually turned out.