Me, when child was theoretical: I’m not going to infantilize my baby, I’m going to speak to him like an adult. I’ll read Shakespeare and Murakami aloud and we’ll listen to classical music and his …
-
-
IF THIS VERY TINY SHOE FITS
The internet doesn’t need any more obvious content about how small and adorable and irresistible baby clothes are, or how they are 90% unnecessary, or a transcript of my inner thoughts yesterday as I found …
-
ears peeled
Ever since Joe’s arrival, my hearing is sharper. It’s like some cotton from one of my many childhood ear infections was left inside and when I gave birth it was spotted, taken out, and suddenly, …
-
The Cat
Before we had an actual human child, I remember reading / hearing that once you do, you might suddenly find that you HATE YOUR ANIMAL CHILD, and I remember thinking, that won’t be me, I …
-
Boys
Me, reading this Book to Joe: Okay so Joe, trucks and cars and trains are typically things that Boys like, but you don’t HAVE to like any of these things. You can like whatever you …
-
Color Meditation
I can’t seem to find a single kind of meditation that actually quiets my thoughts, but I’m determined to find one. Yesterday I attempted a five minute guided ‘color meditation’ in hopes of calming my …
-
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 …