First published in the Tri Town Transcript Feb 26, 2019 By Esther C. Baird Well, basketball season is almost over. It’s been four month plus a few days, but who’s counting? Thanksgiving and Christmas were forever ago, but our basketball season reaches even further back. Two girls on two teams with two schedules. It’s been…
Category: The Baird Facts
Where Does Your Garden Grow
First published in the Tri Town Transcript, Feb 11, 2019 By Esther C. Baird Each year, our elementary school participates in the National Geographic Geography Bee. Our two daughters have qualified over the years, and I’ve sat through many. (Six, but who’s counting?) Let me be clear: the questions are insane.
Getting home through troubled waters
First posted in the Tri Town Transcript Jan 25, 2019 By Esther C. Baird I found myself there again. My brain is simply wired to go one way, the shortest way, the way that makes the most sense, the way that I always go, but a way that is not available to me any longer….
Not blowing up the new year
First published in the Tri Town Transcript, Jan 13, 2019 By Esther C. Baird Here in 2019 we’re going to have a positive new year attitude and pretend that nothing gives me greater joy than the return of making school lunches. We’re also going to pretend that my family never gets sick, and anything that…
Pondering on and on…
We’ve almost made it. In fact by the time you read this, Christmas 2018 will be in the books. So much energy and time and emotion… and then it’s over.
Seeing the forest, not the fake trees
First published in the Tri Town Transcript, December 7th 2018. By Esther C. Baird Oh, Christmas decorating. Regular readers know this sets me into a tizzy every year. Between the events and the decorations and the shopping, I fall behind before I even begin. And let’s not discuss the family card. I am the deer…
Overhearing My Own Story
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Nov 16, 2018 By Esther C. Baird Like many people, I need to work in a specific context. When I’m working in my church role, I prefer to be at my office on-site where I have my big heavy books, multiple Bible translations, a small space heater and…
A Lifetime of Field Trips
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Nov 5, 2018 By Esther C. Baird Every year, despite feeling, as Regular Readers know, a teeny bit resentful that summer is over, I try to be a good school mom. I sign the forms and attend the teacher conferences and send out class emails about fundraisers. This…
Left on the wrong side
First published in the Tri-Town Transcript Oct 19, 2018 By Esther C. Baird I was covered in blisters, my daughter had scraped knuckles, and we were all cranky. Every time I leaned over to try and work, a giant, bright, glittery, star-shaped balloon hit me in the face.
Predictable Chaos
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Oct 4, 2018 By Esther C. Baird Things are beginning to settle into a semi-pattern of stops and starts and rides and canceled practices and last minute forgotten homework or cleats or insurance forms or doctor visits. OK, it’s not a pattern; it’s the chaos of fall but…