Life after loss with autism, preemies and a rainbow baby
I tell them when they were inside my stomach they played with each others toes, wiggled the ear closest to them and decided on the best time to meet us. An “expert” once explained they could not sense the loss of their sister. Memory doesn’t form until much later in infancy. But I am their […]
The nurse put cool metal to his chest, smiling at me as his rhythms were recorded, he whispered… “Hadley is in our hearts, Mommy.” “She is honey,” I nodded, in my achingly proud voice, perfected since they began to speak her name. We sat in the beating quiet until my shy daughter spoke up. And […]
An hour deep into an endless bedtime and he was perfecting his somersault. Exhausted and yearning for five minutes of quiet, I gave up and let him play until his never-ending energy ran out a bit more. He moved his circus act to my computer chair and insisted on a “Baby Movie.” My sigh was […]
At the risk of receiving my first round of nasty comments, let’s discuss why I have always been a bit envious of Michelle Duggar… There are things that give me an odd amount of contentment: dressing one kid after another after another (in coordinating colors, of course) buckling in a van full of car seats […]
No one told me that the age of four is the age of we-will-try-to-talk-you-out-of-going-to-bed-every-single-night. The latest bedtime avoidance technique is called Three Million Questions. I have explained away why we do not have chicken on Thanksgiving, why it does not snow in the summer and why I can’t make the snow come RIGHT. NOW. MOMMY. […]
I have noticed a few things lately, How your hand doesn’t stretch quite as high to meet mine. That you don’t have to try as hard to keep pace with me as we walk. You pick up a book and pretend to read on your own and it isn’t even upside down. You wander a […]
Before you read this I have to take a moment to say how truly humbled I am to be nominated as a Woman of Strength by the incomparable Nichole of In These Small Moments. If you have an extra second you can view her beautiful post here. My blogoversary was two days ago. I have […]
Then I was young. You were born right on time, your due date. You were smiles and challenges and growing up together. Now you are almost grown. You are A’s in Math and contagious smiles and you are never, ever late for a thing. ——————- Then you were Baby A fragile and small, serious and […]
We thought we were done after the triplets. Years of fertility treatments and a very complicated pregnancy had me convinced that we would not be able to have any more. What I did not realize was that we could not possibly be done because we did not have a Youngest. The baby of the family […]
Yesterday was one of those not-so-stellar days of parenting. We were stuck inside because of rain and everyone was whining and fighting and by noon I had put in the “if I don’t get a break soon I’m running away from home” call to Mark. In hopes of saving my sanity I packed the kids […]
