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To Benjamin, my 16-month-old son, I am everything. I am the first person that boy looks for when he wakes…
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To Benjamin, my 16-month-old son, I am everything. I am the first person that boy looks for when he wakes…
Continue ReadingOne day you will come home after your first day of a new school year and not wish to share…
Continue ReadingI would have been an amazing boy mom. I’ve been an athlete all my life. I prefer villains to princesses,…
Continue ReadingThe arts-and-crafts tote overflowed with cylinders of petrified Play-Doh, crispy-bristled paintbrushes, and Elmer’s glue bottles with clogged applicator tips. Underneath…
Continue ReadingHe’s five now—my baby, the third of my three children. I feel like I’ve taken the time to enjoy each…
Continue ReadingSuch big blue eyes for your tiny face. Staring into them, I saw a world of possibilities for you. Would…
Continue ReadingWhen you were a newborn, I knew you as well as it’s possible to know another human being. I was…
Continue ReadingMy oldest son, you are entering new corners of the world. Corners in which I am not allowed to enter…
Continue ReadingThere’s just something about dinosaurs. Impossibly mountainous in size. Outrageously Herculean in strength. These long-extinct creatures have the capability of…
Continue ReadingHit rewind and watch the years wind back up to the beginning. Do you see the stark blue of his…
Continue Reading“Mom, I’m not going trick-or-treating this year, so I won’t need a Halloween costume,” my 12-year-old said to me last…
Continue ReadingThese are the days of snips and of snails. Of endless exploring and blazing new trails. Of hiding behind me…
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