Author Archives: Morgan

My third kid has been vacationing away from home for a few days. My other kids have been pawned off on neighborhood friends for the day. I swept, laundered, scrolled, repotted, created, relaxed. Now what? I’m going to do some shitty, dorky, journaling in the hopes that one day, I’ll write something really good andContinue reading “Essays on Life – 1st Attempt”

I’ve been Christmasing for about 764 hours straight now. It’s the season of yes apparently. When you see me with green hair and red lipstick, don’t be alarmed, I haven’t gone full Joker; I’m just in the Christmas spirit. Does your church group need 49 pairs of Christmas socks? Sure, we only have one storeContinue reading “Just Call Me Mrs. Claus”

How to take an utterly indulgent, guilt-free, rest day: Step One: Work yourself into an anxious frenzy in preparation of watching your kids compete in a jujitsu tournament Step Two: Travel to far away place to not sleep in a hotel and lose your voice cheering for your gold medal winning kids Step Three: UnleashContinue reading “Netflix and Ill”

I’m a full grown adult woman. And this morning I was a huge brat. It’s true, I wholly admit responsibility. I made two out of three kids cry and we started the morning off really rough. It’s Halloween today. My favorite holiday. I love dressing up, I love costumes, I love all the spooky funContinue reading “If You’re Bratty and You Know it, Raise Your Hand”

When I started this blog, I was on fire. Like stop, drop, and roll because your eyebrows are about to get singed off your face, on fire. I had years of words frothing to my fingertips, just boiling to the surface. I thought about words all day and night … for about a week. Then,Continue reading “What to Do When the Fire Dies Out”

For about three hours this morning, it felt like fall around my house. Even with a two hour rain delay that messed up my morning plans (because god forbid I have to tend to the children I birthed on a school day), I flitted around with unusual good cheer, buoyed by the promise of coolerContinue reading “Wait, you want to eat every day?!”

One idyllic early spring day, we loaded up the fam and headed to our favorite sledding spot outside of Cloudcroft. The sun was streaming in the car, and the kids were actually being nice to each other. I had that delicious, drowsy, sun-drunk feeling. I may have actually been drunk because what I said nextContinue reading “The Most Ambitious Summer Ever.”

Well, its my first blog post since I made up Fox Fairy Tales in 2010 and thought the internet should be regaled with my first kid’s birth story. Yikes, spare yourself the google. Life just snowballed from there and I forgot to make any more posts, or become a published author, or do much outsideContinue reading “My “first” blog post”