He’s Outgrowing My Lap But He’ll Never Outgrow My Heart
He’s five now—my baby, the third of my three children. I feel like I’ve taken the time to enjoy each…
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He’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…
Continue ReadingIt was supposed to be a joke. His younger siblings were getting bubble bath for Christmas, knowing he no longer…
Continue ReadingHow many times have you seen this situation happen? A little girl comes crying to her parents from the playground…
Continue ReadingThis is the one I lost for 42 seconds at Garden of the Gods last summer because he went off…
Continue ReadingI had an epiphany tonight. I was walking around the kitchen with a toddler on my hip. My 9-year-old tried…
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