Older Kids Are Magic, Too
My kids are growing up. They’re growing up fast. When they were tiny everyone said, “Enjoy it. It goes by…
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My kids are growing up. They’re growing up fast. When they were tiny everyone said, “Enjoy it. It goes by…
Continue ReadingThese are the hands that held me as I took my first breaths. The hands that fed me and changed…
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 ReadingI’m not one to issue advice, especially when no one’s asking. I am especially hesitant to offer advice to a…
Continue ReadingMe with my first baby: I will never buy my kids tacky character tees. Evvvvvvver. Mark my words. Me after…
Continue ReadingTo the mama with the wild child: I see you. I was once the person who would say, "That kid…
Continue ReadingParenting teens is hard. But not really in the ways they tell you. The hard stuff isn't the eye-rolling, back-talk,…
Continue ReadingI think at some level I always knew. In our first year of marriage, I told my husband that I…
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