Kate Wicker

Storyteller & Speaker

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And the living is {very} easy…

What’s not to like about life when you’re reading The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun on the beach while your husband sits beside you keeping his eye on happy kids frolicking in the waves?Read the whole post >>

· March 15, 2014 · Tagged With: Books, Glimpses Into Our Life, Gratitude, Joy, Travel · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

12 Days of Christmas in Pictures

{Hot Cocoa Cookies, the best cookies we made all season. HT: Hungry Runner Girl; recipe here.} {Someone has been working out…} {Pretend Mass with this beautiful Montessori Mass set} {Gaba and the girls} {Playing with our food} {Action shot} {Thank goodness for indoor swimming at the Family Y!} {She wants to be a vet whenRead the whole post >>

· January 6, 2014 · Tagged With: Christmas, Glimpses Into Our Life · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Giving thanks and Advent links

We celebrated Thanksgiving at Nana and Pop’s this year and on the way, I set my phone’s timer for five minutes and asked the kids to blurt out anything and everything they were thankful for and I then listed them in the exact order they were shouted out and also did not edit their contributionsRead the whole post >>

· November 29, 2013 · Tagged With: Advent, Crafts, Glimpses Into Our Life, Gratitude, Recipes · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Better late than never

I had every intention of being prompt and posting Halloween and All Saints’ Day photos at the start of the week. You’d think that now that I’ve been resigned to a mostly sedentary existence because of that darn hamstring injury I’d have more time to blog (or clean or learn to sew or do somethingRead the whole post >>

· November 7, 2013 · Tagged With: Glimpses Into Our Life, Holidays · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Holy Batman!

Ah, the dog days of summer are nearly behind us. And I couldn’t be happier. Summer break? It was more like summer hell. Or at least summer purgatory. The living most definitely wasn’t easy. But easy isn’t always better. Thanks to this summer, we will have some great stories to tell for years to come.Read the whole post >>

· September 3, 2013 · Tagged With: Glimpses Into Our Life, Tough Days · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

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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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