It's time for a change.

Choosing a different way forward, back to where we've been before.

We have a saying in our home called “too much birthday.” It happens when family members find themselves overstimulated, overfed, and overexposed to everything.

Most parents know the feeling of dragging a frosting-faced toddler from a gathering, the child thrashing and crying because they misplaced their balloon or didn’t get a second turn on the bicycle. This is “too much birthday.” What started out with good intentions — “Hey! This is going to be fun!” — can easily turn bitter when overdone.

Despite our family’s choice to move consciously through our days on difficult, less-traveled paths and our willingness to traverse counter-cultural norms, we find ourselves once again in a position of saying, “No… this is simply too much for us.”

So it’s time for a change.