When I Told My Rainbow Baby about the Baby Who Came before Her
For 11 years I’ve wondered what it would be like to tell her. I’ve imagined various scenes where it would…
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For 11 years I’ve wondered what it would be like to tell her. I’ve imagined various scenes where it would…
Continue ReadingSix . . . Six is only one number more than five, one grade, one year . . . but it…
Continue ReadingI wasn’t prepared for this time in our life together. I wasn’t given enough warning on how I would be…
Continue ReadingShe looked up at me with the most hopeful, delighted green-blue eyes, “Look what I got, Mama!” And out from…
Continue ReadingAs my kindergartner came bounding through the door back from the park, she seemed ecstatic to tell me all about…
Continue ReadingThere are a million things I wasn’t prepared for when I became a mom. It also seems like four years…
Continue ReadingI have a vivid memory of tentatively walking toward the little pink sleepers hanging in Nordstrom. I gently lifted one…
Continue ReadingThose first five. Those precious first five years have flown by. I blinked and here we are. I look back…
Continue ReadingSome people roll their eyes at the term, but I used to be a card-carrying member of the boy mom…
Continue ReadingI love that she looks just like you. She shares your fierce and wild, animal-loving spirit while also being sensitive…
Continue Reading“You look white as a sheet,” said Jacquie sitting next to me in math class. I nodded and gripped my…
Continue ReadingA few months ago, I took my daughter in for a routine check-up, and I had one of those moments…
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