originally published on March 11 By today’s standards, I waited a good while before having my second child. I get the whole “two under two” and “done with diapers” things, they just weren’t my bag. Instead, my kids are three and a half years apart to the week. In hindsight I am so glad that I ...
Good news:
I've found myself a new Hannah. All I had to do was give birth to her. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcNo07Xp8aQ
Light.
This morning, I am seeking some peace, and so I found myself lighting candles around the Living Room; some are my cherished Balsam and Cedar that bring me back to christmas morning long ago; one is a favorite from the Catskills, Voluspa Ambre Lumiere; and then the remaining candles are from a gift I received from a very ...
“Once Upon a Time…”
"...in a quiet village, there lived a girl named Cinderella. But she was very very kind to animals and she feeded her animals. They were very nice to Cinderella. One was named Gus. She had to leave to go to the ball but she had to leave at midnight but she left a glass slipper ...
What one minute with a one-month-from four year old is like:
Kid: Mom, can you put on Sheriff Callie's Wild West where Peck plays horseshoes and is a horrible sport? Me: Sure Kid: I'm a great sport, right? Me: Yeah. (I was lying bee tee double you) Kid: Yeah! I play basketball, I play catch.. ....and she trailed off, turned away and then pivoted back, saying, "There's some strange magic here." Strange magic, indeed, ...
Sunrise.
When your kids wake you up when it's still dark, it can feel exhausting. But when they ask you to watch the sunrise together... it can feel like everything.
That time of day.
You know that time of day, when you've been up since 5:30 am and not just up but on, and you are juggling two children at once and a particularly needy dog and find yourself scrubbing the floors and filling up cups of orange juice and bowls of donut holes and folding laundry and not taking a moment to catch ...
So it’s 5:30 in the morning,
and the baby woke up crying. And really, I can't complain, because the night before he slept 13 hours and woke up cooing, playing in his crib. But his screams woke my daughter, which meant I had to go into her bed with her. I had been hoping to soothe her back to sleep, as it is a ...
Sometimes.
Sometimes, being a mommy gets overwhelming. Sometimes, I have moments of exasperation, like I shared earlier. But then sometimes, the baby goes to bed extra early, and my husband and I both get to do bedtime for the biggie, and I get to tell two bedtime stories: One made up about a place called Alasia, where Queen Elsa, ...
File under: things I didn’t know
when I peed on that stick: It is almost four on a week day afternoon, we are fresh off of a magical little vacation; I am home alone with two kids and it's that time of day when I'm counting the hours (maybe minutes) until my partner, my husband, their dad, comes come. And I just had ...
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