While She’s Still Mine
I touched her hair today. The delicate, fully-formed, angel-baby droplet plucked intentionally off heaven's tree and placed in my belly…
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I touched her hair today. The delicate, fully-formed, angel-baby droplet plucked intentionally off heaven's tree and placed in my belly…
Continue ReadingMy (almost) 8-year-old daughter came in from tidying the yard and readying it for play to hand me the plastic,…
Continue ReadingOn Friday evenings, my husband and I usually have a date night at home. We put the children to bed,…
Continue ReadingWhen I hold you, I will try to remember your tiny arms and tiny legs wrapped securely around me. When…
Continue Reading“Mom, can I have a phone?” “Mom, why won't you let me shave my legs?” “Mom, when can I wear…
Continue ReadingMillions of tween and teenage girls have read Judy Blume's coming-of-age classic, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret since…
Continue ReadingFrom the day she was born, I knew we had a firecracker on our hands. I tell people that the…
Continue ReadingThey all say it’s coming. I have an inkling it might be true. Yet I’m holding on–I’m believing the same…
Continue ReadingWhile I was organizing my daughter's bedroom this weekend, it hit me: we've entered the in-between years. We're in between…
Continue ReadingDear 6th grade, Here’s the thing. Not only is it hard to be a pre-teen, but a pre-teen who just…
Continue ReadingI keep seeing articles about kindergartners heading off to school for the first time, and parents are feeling all the…
Continue ReadingOne of the first things I did after having your slippery body brought close to mine for the first time…
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