I Was Made For the Chaos of Raising Boys
I’m a boy mom times two. I’m the keeper of the dinosaurs, the “stop picking your nose” preacher, and the…
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I’m a boy mom times two. I’m the keeper of the dinosaurs, the “stop picking your nose” preacher, and the…
Continue ReadingTo my firstborn . . . You are the first person I fell in love with long before I saw…
Continue ReadingYou slipped your arms around my waist as I stood at the kitchen counter, slicing veggies for dinner. “I love…
Continue ReadingLast night, we cuddled under your dream tent and read Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site. As I read you squeezed my arm…
Continue ReadingWhen God gives a girl a brother . . . He gives her someone to play with—someone to push cars…
Continue ReadingI'm pretty confident there's one in every family. The "easy one". The one who almost always follows the rules, does…
Continue ReadingWhen you arrived, my voice let you know it was me, your mother, your person, your keeper. You knew my…
Continue ReadingI cried when I found out you were a boy. I’ve never told anyone that before. They weren’t the good…
Continue ReadingI can replay it all in my memories, young me yelling at my mother: “You’re making me look like a…
Continue ReadingAs a mother of all boys and with a mother-in-law who raised all boys, I feel like I have been…
Continue ReadingOnce upon a time, a boy was born. He was chub and giggles and endless screaming in the middle of…
Continue ReadingThis is 3. It’s your first independent swimming lessons, without me in the pool, your swimming teacher telling me you…
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