“How do you do it with three kids?! I only have one and I’m drowning…,” she wrote. She could’ve been anyone. She is so many people. She was me – two kids ago. Drowning is exactly the right word. I reassured this particular ‘she’ that I too felt that I was drowning. That she’s not […]
Seasons change
I could’ve been disgruntled. After working my final shift before maternity leave, waddling the hall with a smuggled bowling ball all evening; my bump and I finally reached our bed and body pillow a little after midnight. It took mere seconds to drift off to a not-so-restful sleep with baby boy performing his nightly acrobatics. […]
The Village
I know this is random. I know that I owe you a birth story and 5 months of baby stats that I haven’t recorded and a few years of lists about what I’ve learned and tips and tricks of how I’m personally conquering and/or utterly failing at motherhood… But there’s not enough hours in a […]
Pregnancy #2: In Review
We made it little one… despite all the promising promises that #2 comes early and you’ll never make it that long and you’ve dropped and Lydie’s saga won’t happen again… Here we are. On your due date. With no signs that you’re about to make any sort of expedient arrival. So before you’re born, even […]
Mother’s Day 2017
The years, they fly. Each fleeting chapter more quickly than the one before. This Mother’s Day morning will be much like the last. Cards, gifts, the sharing of loving sentiments and a great meal. But this year is so very different, Lydie bug. You’ve grown. Your grin is toothier, bigger and brighter (somehow), and surrounded […]