#thisishowitalwaysis

[chasingpagesquotes]

For my child, for all our children, I want more options, more paths through the woods, wider ranges of normal, and unconditional love.

Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

[jennabookish]

Happy first day of Pride Month! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 Sharing some books I love with prominent LGBTQ characters! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 #bookstagram #bookworm #bookphotography #bibliophile #booklover #instareads #book #bookblogger #instabook #reader #bookish #bookgram #beautifulbooks #reading #booktag #prettybooks #allthebooks #stacksofbooks #thisishowitalwaysis #thepsychologyoftimetravel #thehuntress #theimmortalists #thesevenhusbandsofevelynhugo #rainbow #pride #lgbtq https://www.instagram.com/p/ByLJ14Lg_E3/?igshid=1laab7l7bkmlc

[chasingpagesquotes]

I wish for my child, for all our children, a world where they can be who they are and become their most loved, blessed, appreciated selves.

Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

[parentingroundabout]

Roundabout Roundup: The Dumb Dads on Instagram, Jodsone Gel Nail Polish Kit, and This Is How It Always Is

On this week’s Roundabout Roundup, It's Terri's turn for an Instagram Minute: She's passing along a recommendation from her ENT (hi, Dr. Lee from Summit Health) for The Dumb Dads on Instagram. Nicole is taking manicures into her own hands with a gel nail polish kit, and Catherine suggests a book called This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel. ​ Thanks as always to Jon Morin for our fun in-and-out music, which you hear on every episode.

[chasingpagesquotes]

You can't tell people what to be, I'm afraid.. You can only love and support who they already are.

Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

[christine55416]

Since we are doing a zoom book club meeting next week, it's time to hurry and start reading! #thisishowitalwaysis @laurie.frankel #bookclub #bookstagram #socialdistancing #covidreading #stlouispark #reading https://www.instagram.com/p/B-w4-2MHNos/?igshid=14ckismiqy9w6

[chapterswelove]

Happy Tuesday!!! Busy day ahead and I’m ready to go back to bed that’s what happens when you stay up late watching The Beauty and the Beast on Netflix! That show is too addicting 😊 • Anyways, I picked this baby up last month sounds like a great read but I guess we shall see 😁 • • This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel • • This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after…until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change…and then change the world. This is Claude. He’s five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They’re just not sure they’re ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude’s secret. Until one day it explodes. This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it’s about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever. • • • • • #thisishowitalwaysis #lauriefrankel #fantasy #lgbtqiap+ #fiction #contemporary #booksbooksbooks #reading https://www.instagram.com/p/B8JZR5UgFEV/?igshid=1v5m5doec52go

[jennn-y]

Self-doubt is something really toxic😈It will eat you inside out. And you just can't control it. Not like there a button to turn it on and off. When the people at your surroundings is better than you, you will feel that you need to do somethings in order to fit into the group. If not, here comes another friend--discrimination 💭 . . #lifequotes #thisishowitalwaysis #sunnyday #makesmesimplythink https://www.instagram.com/p/BxmQ7o3hfLS/?igshid=1ejgupxkqpi1o