About Us
Nest & Launch is about enjoying life in the mid-stages and next stages--relishing friendships, ideas, family life, adventures, music, books, ideas, and other aspirations. It's about nesting and launching our families and about those dual nesting/launching goals for ourselves, too. Most of our posts fit under at least one of these categories:
nesting (design, food, gatherings, projects, traditions),
launching (activities, child development, launching kids, parenting),
relationships (families, marriage, friendship and motherhood), and
becoming (aspirations, books, culture, faith, essays, style, travel).
Basically we've decided to write about whatever catches our fancy (our fancies?). Come join us!
How do you two know each other?
We're virtual friends! We first became acquainted online through our personal blogs back in...oh...the dinosaur age equivalent of blogging. We discovered that we had a lot in common. We were even both PhD mamas at the same time, juggling academic work and family life. Score one for the wonderful world of the internet.
Many (often daily) emails and an in-person visit later, we decided to join forces to start up a website addressing our particular stages of life and parenting. At that point (2012/13) there were quite a few blogs about raising younger kids but there really wasn't much out there focused on these years of mid-stage parenting (with kids ages teen through young adult) and so we wanted to create the kind of site we wished already existed and start the conversation.
Annie is a mom of three (all now young adults), writer, researcher, professor, and inveterate parentheses user. She received a PhD in Child Study and Human Development from Tufts University and has worked in a variety of roles, including as a professor of human development for a small liberal arts college and as a researcher of Syrian refugee children and their families in the Middle East; brain development of premature infants; and parenting/parent development in challenging circumstances. After spending most of their early family years in Boston, she and her family moved to Australia in 2012 for five years, followed by moves to Virginia, Abu Dhabi, and soon back to Boston for good. You can also catch her writing (very infrequently) (see? parentheses abuse) on her own blog Basic Joy.
Sarah is a mom of four , a native Texan, and a life-long admirer of George Eliot, Margaret Atwood, Indie music, and Hot Tamales. She is married to the ever understanding and patient S, who cheers on blogs, and graduate school, and messy closets. She is currently writing (and alternately banging her head against a very hard wall) a dissertation for a PhD in English Literature at Texas A&M University. She finds herself often conflicted between academic work and domestic endeavors, meaning she'd rather sift endlessy through Pinterest than make sage literary observations. Her procrastinatory efforts can also be found at www.unhistoricacts.com.
