If I had known that it was going to be the last time, I would have taken our picture. One of you falling asleep the way that you had every day of your entire life. Your eyes were usually half closed with a happy smile playing around your lips, all of your focus on nursing. …
On my daughter’s second birthday, a season of lasts Read More »
Well, Thanksgiving week has finally arrived. I don’t know how that happened, it was summer about a week ago, but suddenly the leaves are all falling from the trees and I am staring down the barrel of making dinner for 20 on Thursday. Between mouthfuls of what will hopefully be the most delicious bird anyone …
Ten surefire gifts for any mom on your list this Christmas Read More »
Once, when I was about fifteen, I got very sick. I had been feeling poorly for a few days before I finally told my mother that I probably needed to go to the doctor. It was there that we received the diagnosis of a sinus infection coupled with bronchitis. I was given a prescription and …
When You’re a Mom, Nobody Cares That You’re Sick Read More »
I am writing this on four hours of sleep, next to my vanity and jewelry box that have both been covered in lip stick, typing on my lap top that is also covered in lip stick, while the gentle kicks of a toddler connect with my legs. Said toddler also had four hours of sleep, …
The boxes are (mostly) unpacked, the pictures are hung, and my husband’s dirty clothes are discarded all over the floor. We are home. It has not been an easy past two weeks. I never actually questioned our marriage during this whole process, but I did vaguely wonder at a few points if someday I would …
Home is Where You Throw Your Dirty Clothes on the Floor Read More »
I was pulling up to my parent’s street when I saw it. It was a sign. No literally, it was a sign. It said, “Moving Sale, this Saturday” and it was hanging right in front of their street. I fought the urge to burst into tears. I fought it valiantly but, whatever. I wiped one …
I was on the floor when it happened. My daughter had been running around the living room, cackling like a lunatic. We were playing a game that consisted of her bringing out toys and piling them up on my chest while I laid on the floor. If the sounds she was making were any indication, …
It’s getting real. The boxes are getting packed. There are empty nails sticking out the wall, slightly darker paint showing where picture frames once hung. The home turning back into what it was when I first walked into it eleven years ago, just a house. So much has happened in the past eleven years. I …
Adventures in Landlording – The Things We Leave Behind Read More »
There’s a new Harry Potter book! There’s a new Harry Potter book! There’s a new Harry Potter book!!!!!! Okay, I have to catch my breath because just thinking about jumping up and down and yelling that at the top of my lungs has me winded. For real. I am after all, significantly older than I …
One time*, when we had only first started dating, my husband and I stayed up until 5AM drinking, watching movies, and talking. I don’t remember what we watched, or what we talked about (I suspect we succumbed to our favorite past time, creating our dream cast for books that we’d read that we thought would …