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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 ReadingTo my firstborn, Some days it feels like I just found out about you—pregnant for the first time ever. But…
Continue ReadingI’m only a little boy, still too young to tie my own shoes or make my own breakfast. My days…
Continue ReadingMy 9-year-old son, Waylan, had a flag football game last night. It was chilly. It was windy. I didn’t want…
Continue ReadingWords, phrases, entire sentences left my son’s mouth at the dining room table as if he were speaking a foreign…
Continue ReadingSuch big blue eyes for your tiny face. Staring into them, I saw a world of possibilities for you. Would…
Continue ReadingHe is my first boy. Many things that come easy to me with my girls are difficult with my son.…
Continue ReadingWhere did my sweet, innocent, curious, and adorable little lambs of sons go? It seems like just yesterday my youngest…
Continue ReadingI knew the day was coming. Almost every mother of a son I know eventually becomes dwarfed by her baby…
Continue ReadingI remember when my son was born like it was yesterday—a fussy, colicky, jaundiced, heat-rash bundle of baby boy. My…
Continue ReadingToday my baby became a little boy. The change has been coming for a while even if I didn't quite…
Continue ReadingNo one told me when I was counting down the days until my first baby was born, that I would…
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