Dear Son, Raising You Right Is Worth It
You were the baby who slept nights. You were the infant who quietly stacked blocks one on top of the…
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You were the baby who slept nights. You were the infant who quietly stacked blocks one on top of the…
Continue ReadingThey all say it’s coming. I have an inkling it might be true. Yet I’m holding on–I’m believing the same…
Continue ReadingIf I close my eyes and let myself, I can still see the 11-year-old boy with his pale feet sticking…
Continue ReadingI lean my head in through the window of his van. The first thing I notice is the funny smell.…
Continue ReadingIt wasn’t what we had in mind—this 1914 house with one bathroom on a busy street but far from everything.…
Continue ReadingI don’t know what I expected, exactly. But I didn’t expect you to smile at me and say sweetly, “Thanks,…
Continue ReadingDear God, I tried this morning. I set my alarm for 6:45 a.m., a few minutes before the kids wake…
Continue ReadingOnce upon a time, I was 25 and crying in the car. Weeping, actually, over my just-pregnant belly. There was…
Continue ReadingI tried to slow you down–my fourth baby. I postponed swim lessons for the big kids, I held back from…
Continue Reading“Mom, it says here in the parenting magazine that by five months, babies should be responding when you call their…
Continue ReadingAs I write this, I’m three months postpartum with baby number four. Things are different the fourth time around. I…
Continue ReadingAll the parenting books in all the world can’t prepare you for the emotions that rise up when your child…
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