Life after loss with autism, preemies and a rainbow baby
Our dryer broke on Friday or maybe Thursday, it’s all a blur of laundry at this point. The neighbor let me drag my loads of wet clothes to her house to dry and I’m sure she’s trying to figure my portion of her utility bills right about now after underestimating the volume of laundry I […]
If you stare at something long enough it will blur. The haze will stay until you blink, clear your view, and look again. I have been a mom for 17 years, six months and one day, I’m still caught off guard at the job of this. I will sign a paper or get asked a […]
I have a confession to make. Lately my five year-old, always the considerate one, has been bringing me my phone if he sees it laying around the house, because he knows it is usually in my hand. Ouch. Too often I set my kids up with a fancy shmancy craft and the minute they are […]
At 25 degrees below my beach comfort zone, we trucked to the shoreline, our first afternoon on Lake Michigan not to be spent without sand. The kids squealed as we took off their shoes and rolled up their pant legs “just in case.” Parker took off full blast, laughing down to his knobby knees as […]
I woke up this morning with an agenda. Clean the bathrooms, pack up unsold items from our garage sale, finish some writing, get to the bottom of a pile of whites… it continued on dryly from there. Instead you whined and you took the cushions off the couch for the eleventy billionth time and you […]
I wait patiently for the dark pink crayon. “Salmon” won’t do. Strawberry Shortcake’s hair is one dye job away from magenta. They ask how to spell “momma” and deftly smuggle markers and see if they can break just one more crayon into two. I press further into my chair. Having successfully hidden my phone from […]
I created this space for my children. To preserves the memories of their childhood and give them something to look back on. Today’s post is just that. I saw this idea of capturing the many faces of childhood on Pinterest and fell in love with it. I had the kids show me all of their […]
