Today was an unusual day. I got a call from my husband when he went to drop our daughter at school and he told me that school was closed for Passover. I raced to the car and met them, and picked up my daughter and he went off to work. He was a bit annoyed. Not at ...
And Not in the Mariah Carey Way.
The slide may have grown, and you may have grown, but you will always, always be my baby.
10 Recent Moments of Kindness
This afternoon, while the baby napped, I had a moment to catch up on a favorite blog of mine, Emphasis Added, a story that I have been following for years now. She is in the midst of a personal horror; while on vacation, there was a terrible flood in her house and almost everything in her ...
#team
This morning, as we slept and my daughter played quietly as instructed, she heard the baby start to stir in his room. Instead of waking us, she went in there, used a stool to turn on his light, covered him in her baby blanket and started talking and singing to him. I woke up to the sound of both of ...
This thing that happens.
There's this thing that happens with your dear mommy friends. You have babies and you don't know what the hell you're doing, so you lean on each other. You make calls like "Do you think it's OK to feed the baby a stage 3 food a week early?" or "Is it OK for the baby to sleep in ...
Magic with Lindsay Docherty (Another Sneak Peak)
Originally published on 511 Ever After Another little taste of my magical experience with Lindsay Docherty. Her ability to get down on my daughter’s level, both literally and figuratively, amazed me. She put my daughter at great ease, and she was instantly comfortable with Lindsay in our home and a camera in her space. We decided to hang ...
Spring Break.
Please hear me as I say, loud and clear, I love my children. I live for them. I miss them when they are not with me. When I dine at a restaurant without them, I feel like something is missing. When I pick up my daughter from school each day, I exhale, feeling peace that we are reunited. ...
A tiny, little, amazing story.
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 ...
Bedtime. A Haiku.
Four of us snug-gled in bed; kids trading giggles. What life is about.
Here comes the comeback kid…
(photo above updated October, 2016; taken live from show October 24th at Union Transfer) Today, in the words of my most favorite, Brett Dennen, I felt as if "I'd never been laid so low". That may be a bit hyperbolic, but I was definitely feeling low; I got an unexpected putdown that kind of knocked the wind ...
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