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 […]
My son has declared that he is having “a Nerf gun moment.” He is not new to Nerf guns, but his enthusiasm these days is at an all time high. He just earned money to order a new one, and he counted down the hours until it arrived on our doorstep. He made new targets […]
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 was a highly anxious new mother. I had a three-ring binder where I kept notes on the pregnancy and parenting books that I read and research on the top recommended baby products. It was color coded and cross-referenced. Once my son was born, I had another notebook in which I meticulously recorded feeding times, […]
My youngest daughter’s favorite foods are spaghetti and cheese. Her favorite meal is spaghetti with “red sauce” and mounds of parmesan cheese on top. She always wants to put the parm on herself, and when I tell her to stop, that she’s got too much, she tells me “I like too much!” I get it. […]