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You Only Get 18 Christmases

Eighteen is kind of an odd number. It’s big if you’re talking about pounds gained or lost, how many times you sneeze in a row, or how many…

They tell you to hold the baby. They tell you that everything else can fall by the wayside. They tell you to forget about your to-do list, because…

You know how people change, but deep down, really, they don’t? This is my eldest son when he was 4 years old . . . and now. Those curls! He’s…

I was going to sit with the baby this morning but the laundry was piled sky high. I placed her in the play pen to watch me fold the towels. I looked…

It seems like only a few short moments ago I held your tiny little body in my arms. How big you are now compared to those days. As I stare down at…

These are the hands that prayed for your existence, day after day, month after month. These are the hands that shook as I stared down at a positive…

The littleness is leaving our home. It’s slowly creeping away, almost unnoticed unless I stop to take a hard look at it. That is how change is…

My children will both be at preschool in just a few short months, and it’s making me a little nostalgic. As I danced around with them today to…

“Bapa?” My one-year-old says, as she toddles over with my cell phone clutched in her small hands. “Cah Bapa?” I smile down at my…

Tiny sparkles are nestled in the wispy hair falling across her brow, shaken free of the princess costume she pulled over her head this morning.…