Kate Wicker

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Crazy is as crazy does

We do crazy well around here.

crazy hair day madeline 2014

It was Crazy Hair Day at soccer camp today. As if having crazy hair wasn’t enough, 9-year-old Madeline went all crazy-eyed on me when I told her I wanted a picture of her tres chic do. My 5-year-old fashionista might have been a little jealous of the sheer number of accessories adorning her big sister.

I asked Madeline if it was okay to post the picture on my blog. She looked at me like, “Why wouldn’t it be?”

Then there was me recently trying to enforce quiet time. If you can’t beat them, you might as well join them.

crazy montage

(All my pictures from the last few days were coming out all grainy. I discovered the lens on my phone camera had a nice layer of gunk over it. This is what I call the Mom-of-little-ones-with-grubby-hands-filter.)

Off to go live my cray * life.

*Funny story: I ordered a running peep of mine this “Half Cray 13.1” shirt before her second half marathon several months ago. When it arrived, my husband and I stared at it in shock because we thought the company had misspelled crazy. I went online and checked the shirt out and saw that the one on the website also used “cray” instead of “crazy.” Google quickly informed me that all the coolios now use cray instead of crazy. Leaving out that one, little “z” makes texting so much easier, I suppose. IMO, all this texting lingo is a little cray-cray.

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· June 4, 2014 · · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Hi, I’m Kate

I’m a wife, mom of five kids, writer, speaker, storyteller, bibliophile, runner, eating disorder survivor, and perfectionist in recovery. I'm the author of Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood  and Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body.

I’ve tried a lot of things in my life – anorexia, bulimia, law school, teaching aerobics, extended breastfeeding, vegetarianism, trying to be perfect and failing miserably at it – and through it all I’ve been writing. And learning to embrace the messiness of life instead of covering it up, making excuses for it, or being ashamed of my brokenness or my home’s sticky counters.

Nowadays I’m striving every single, imperfect day to strike a balance between keeping it real and keeping it joyful.

 

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”

―Flannery O'Connor

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