As I’ve been circling Christmas traditions in my head, to land on some for Joseph, I’ve stumbled across a new one for MYSELF. It’s at once selfish and giving which is my favorite kind of …
-
-
The Cookie Box
-
Thanksgiving 2020 Pre Fixe
Menu includes: Mashed Sweet potatoes with Garlic A Baby Monitor Herb Brined Cornish Hens Stuffing with Sausage and Pecans Something to Prove to oneself about ones abilities and time management now that one is a …
-
freedom
I have never in my life felt more engaged in an election, probably because I want to shape and preserve the world for my son, so that he might grow up in a country where …
-
tense
Yesterday while probably only halfway wearing pants, trying to justify my frustration with him the previous day, I explained to Morrison I was just having a bad day tomorrow! So basically it was probably a …
-
not lost on me
October is national pregnancy and infant loss awareness month, and it’s not lost on me that this time last year, we’d just had our second failed IVF transfer and I screamed in a parking lot …
-
you had to be there
Today, on how Babies are like Sunsets: pictures don’t capture them. You see the sunset, it’s striking, you scramble for your phone, take a picture, then look at the picture you took, and something magic …
-
Parent Words
One day you’re an adult with a master’s degree, you live in a house that you bought and you read Op-eds and take calls from your Lawyer, and the next day you’re a Parent and …
-
dishwasher v. boy
I’ve always been in love with Time, or at least I’ve perceived it as Love, but it’s Control: I own it, and it does what I want. Each second is a something that can be …
-
A Blessing
I am VERY LUCKY that I have a husband that wants to and is able to be an equal participant in raising (ie: desperately, moment to moment, trying to understand and the keeping alive of) …
-
how to walk
My greatest fears used to be very bad reviews, plummeting to my death in a plane crash, or hurting the feelings of someone I love, but now at the very top of the list is …