Holding the Wind
Tomorrow, my son will be six years old. Six is when I got a baby brother, when I began kindergarten… when I started to formulate memories that stay with me even now. And as I watch my own child roll...
View Article“For” is a World Apart from “With”
“All you ever do is clean,” he pouted from the living room sofa. “You NEVER spend time with me anymore.” I was in the kitchen, unloading the dishwasher and cleaning up from dinner. We’d been from...
View ArticleSpooked.
It’s almost Halloween, so it sort of feels appropriate that I’m spending the majority of my days scared out of my mind. Of course, it’s not the witches and werewolves and vampires that are haunting my...
View ArticleJust Another Moment Longer
I always make J hold my hand in parking lots. It just makes me feel safer. Usually he balks at it or gives me a look… but not this time. This time he slid his hand into mine without a single complaint....
View ArticleThe First Tooth
Last night, J and I together managed to pull his very first loose tooth out of his mouth. He was so excited, all bright eyed and gap toothed and telling me he wasn’t sure he’d get to sleep because he...
View ArticleBabies.
I always wanted more than one child. I wanted two or three or a dozen… anything other than just one. And when I got divorced after J was born, I thought that dream was gone. Then I met Banks and we...
View ArticleLoving the Moments
I’ve stopped and started this post so many times that it feels silly to start again. The truth is, my words are stopped up; choked into the space between my heart and throat and filling me with the...
View ArticleIntroducing Baby C!
I’d love to tell you the number of times I sat down to write and then walked away, but I just can’t recall. There were that many. See… there’s a ton I want to say but there’s just never enough time....
View ArticleCheating at Motherhood
Let me let you in on a little secret… parenting Baby C sort of feels a lot like cheating. When J was a baby… I was a wreck. He never slept. He cried… constantly. I was so stressed out that I got...
View ArticleParenting Two
Having two kids is no joke. I feel like my life has devolved into one of those “check a box” notes with ever changing language. “What do you want to succeed at today? Parenting a baby or Parenting a 7...
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