FBW: Interview with Nicole from In These Small Moments (Ms. March)

FBW stands for Featured Blogger of the Week. Each week we will feature one of our calendar ladies or gentleman. Mondays will be a post written by the FBW and Wednesdays will be an interview of the FBW. If you want to know how you can be a part of the Blogger Body Calendar project, please click here.

What would other people say about your blog?

I hope that they say that in these small moments is a peaceful place … that they feel happy when they leave. I’ve had people tell me that they left my blog and hugged their kids. I can’t think of a better compliment than that.

Describe your calendar photo in 140 characters or less.

All I can tell you right now is that my photo will require my dear friend and trusted photographer, Lori, to recreate spring rain in the California summer sunshine. Can it be done? Stay tuned.

If you could eat only one dessert for the rest of your days, what would it be?

When I was growing up, my mother had a part-time job making wedding cakes on the weekends. Those cakes were glorious. She made them in our kitchen, often into the wee hours of the morning. I could never tire of those white cakes with buttercream frosting. Those are such happy memories.

If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your days, what would it be?

Without question, it would be Under the Table and Dreaming by The Dave Matthews Band. “The Best of What’s Around” runs through my veins. It brings me a ridiculous amount of joy that our daughter can recognize a DMB song from the very first bars.

What do you want your daughter to know about being a strong woman?

I want my sweet Katie to know that she is already just perfect. That love isn’t conditional…it isn’t based on someone else’s expectations of who they want you to be. I want her to believe in herself and know that she is already worthy of love and kindness.

Describe the perfect Saturday evening.

Who doesn’t adore Saturdays? We love putting the kids in the bike trailer and going for long bike rides. Then, after we have tucked the kids into bed, Craig and I grab a couple of beers and sit outside in the quiet and we just reconnect. This life that I have hasn’t come easily and in those quiet moments on the patio, I am overcome with sheer gratitude.

Nicole, Ms. March, authors in these small moments, her blog about finding meaning and beauty in the ordinary moments of parenting, of life.