There was noise in the busy restaurant all around me as I opened the box. But I didn’t hear it. My Mother leaned in over the table and said, “He picked it out himself.” I smiled as I examined the silver cross with my fingers and then felt his hand gently on my right shoulder….
Mothers Everywhere
One of my favorite lines from the musical “Wicked” is: “She had a mother, like SO many do…” Cracks me up every time. Of course in my case I’m blessed to have SO many wonderful mothers in my life. My own Mother is pretty amazing. And then there’s Tim’s mother. Also amazing. And Tim’s…
They were supposed to be yellow…
I trudged into the building, my tired body struggling, my eyes still burning and bloodshot from hours of crying. My boss wanted to know what was wrong so I told him. As was his way, he shrugged it off and told me there were other fish in the sea or some crap like that. But…
Bonus
There are days when my current “job” is hard-ish. Sometimes I wish for the times when I could get dressed every morning, have coffee in my office and eat lunch out with other adults at a decent restaurant. I miss feeling like I’m contributing to something “bigger”, more substantial. More significant. But then I snap…
Happy 7th to my 1st!
This little bundle made me a “Mommy” seven years ago today. This is one of my favorite pictures of him ever taken (at age 2). He no longer has those two front baby teeth. Today he is a soccer playing, reading, writing, joke-telling, brother and sister-loving, sweet, sensitive boy. His blue eyes are just like…
The Day We Met
Imagine you are meeting someone for the first time. You want to tell them about yourself.Instead of reciting a laundry list of what you do or where you’re from, please give us a scene from your life that best illustrates your true self. I threw myself into the room, announcing I was there and the…
LOVE grows and so do babies…
Last year, she wore this outfit as a dress while eating her first cereal on Valentine’s Day. My heart burst with love for her… This year it’s more of a tunic and she is ready for “CHOC-ET” instead… 🙂 And my heart may just explode any minute now… (what? she is her mother’s daughter…re: chocolate)…
Time Stoppage, The Impossible Dream
Are you like me?Do you ever wish time would just stop for a while with your kids? Like right now, Baby K is about to enter the phase that we, at our house, like to call “the age of maximum cuteness”. From around 16 to 20 months the little ones are just so crazy cute…
Time flies, but as long as I’m flying with him, it’s all good.
When I think about November of 1995 I recall how I was happy with my life as it was. I was in my Junior year of college, living with one of my best friends, having a good time and loving life as a twenty-year old. I was still “talking to” a boy I’d dated over…
These Moments of Motherhood
I needed to go. But as I stood there for a few moments longer, I realized I didn’t really need to go. Or even want to at that point. It was the evening of Tuesday, October 19, 2010 and soon I would look at the calendar and it would be October 19, 2025 and he…