Dear Travis, One day when you were brand new in the world, I sat holding your sweet, tiny self and realized that some day you would be a middle school boy. I burst into tears. Your papa came home and found me crying, as I lamented that you would have to go through middle school […]
I had a blog post all ready to go up last week, and I couldn’t post it. There’s too much going on for regularly scheduled programming. In the last few weeks, racial injustice has been highlighted in a major way. It’s a centuries old problem, and recent events have brought it to the forefront of […]
A few nights ago I woke up around 2 in the morning and could not fall back to sleep. I felt restless and unsettled and my thoughts were racing. Around 4:30 I decided to just get up for the day. I went downstairs and was getting myself a cup of coffee, and my tired 4:30 […]
Once upon a time I made some cookies that didn’t turn out quite right. I thought they were edible; my husband sampled one and spit it out with a dramatic gag. I lost my marbles and he defended his reaction. Before either of us knew what was happening, we were fighting about things that had […]
I had grand plans for my second maternity leave. With twelve weeks off, I planned to reorganize and clean my house, work on some writing projects, do as many play dates as possible, and read a ton of books. Somehow, I neglected to factor in that I would be caring for a toddler and a […]