It has been such a strange time, in the whole wide world, and in ours. It is too hard to write about the former, and it is too hard to write about the latter, so I will just tell you about yesterday. Yesterday was K's birthday! We celebrated by waking him up with cuddles and singing. But, then, real life stepped in. ...
Yesterday, I posted a photo collage on Instagram with pictures of my daughter as she went off to have her Kindergarten school pictures taken. I could not believe that she was doing something so grown up; that she looked so mature; that she is so beautiful. I know that it is a thing that people say, but it ...
Dear Five-Year-Old-Daughter, I could write and write and write about how incredible it is--how incredulous I am--that you are about to enter Kindergarten; how I don't understand when you grew to be this size. It is mind-blowing. But, instead, I am going to tell you about the snapshot from one morning. This morning, in fact, when you ...
by, Ernest Miller Hemingway “My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.” A candid moment captured; singing two babies to sleep.To their hearts I'm tied,as I lullaby.One is sucking his thumb, the other is smiling.I don't know what I did to ...
Today, as I unloaded from school pick up, doing my normal routine of getting my daughter out of the passenger side of the car, slinging her backpack over my shoulder, walking her around the car to my side where I get her brother out in his incredibly heavy infant carrier, when my daughter said, "Wait. I want to see ...
This evening, as my daughter was entertaining herself in, what I like to call, the Under the Sea seat, I tuned in to hear it playing Pachelbel's Canon, which was, as it is for many people, one of the songs played during our wedding ceremony. The flautist played that most beautiful Canon in D, As the people most important ...
A few years ago, in a very different stage of my life, I fell in love with a song. "This Will Be Our Year"became a staple in my own soundtrack, as well an optimistic anthem for my future. I felt that it embodied so much about my relationship, And I can’t count the times that I’ve listen to, And maybe even ...
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