To My Child: I Will Lay With You Every Night As Long As You Need
It’s the end of the day, and we are both tired. We are both needing our time to unwind from…
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It’s the end of the day, and we are both tired. We are both needing our time to unwind from…
Continue Reading"She's too little to be a minnow," they told me as I went to put my daughter in her swimming…
Continue ReadingMy sweet baby May, As I rock you to sleep, I feel your soft, still squishy cheek pressed against my…
Continue ReadingThe night before you send your kid to Kindergarten is a strange place. (This is a long one. And I'd…
Continue Reading“Alexander has been in daycare for two days and he already has a runny nose, is that normal?” My coworker,…
Continue Reading“I got you, Mommy!” You squeal as you whirl around me, grabbing my legs. Picking you up and squeezing you…
Continue ReadingYou were the baby. Our first. Our only, for a time. Until you weren’t. Until another came along. And then,…
Continue ReadingIf I had a degree in psychology, I could be a good mommy. I would get why you sometimes cry…
Continue ReadingToday I cried. I cried hard. I sat at top of the staircase, covered my face, and cried. When he…
Continue Reading“Mom, can you open it?” My daughter held out a container of mandarin oranges to me from across the kitchen…
Continue ReadingToday was a hard day. You were completely attached to me. You woke up in the morning angry. You didn’t…
Continue ReadingTo the mama with the wild child: I see you. I was once the person who would say, "That kid…
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