I am jealous of my daughter’s birthday
This week, my brilliant and sensitive miracle turns seven. I won’t ask where the time went, because I...
Remember that sound? The sound that can strike fear into the hearts of all parents? That tiny cooing somewhere in the darkness at 2AM?
Nope,...
Dear Playground Mom,
My daughter, Ellie, is 3-years-old. She’s unusually tall for her age. As in, literally off the doctor’s office development chart. She is...
Five years ago I took my children on the most beautiful trip to Mexico and we will never be the same.
I had gone two...
I am insecure. Not all the time, and not in all situations, but insecurity is not a foreign concept to me. It's not something I like...
I look back at myself, age 35, married and pregnant, with a mixture of humor, compassion, and unabridged mocking. I was so arrogant, and...
When our little man Zayne was born we should have know better. We named him Zayne afterall. Within his first couple weeks he developed...
There are a lot of opinions out there about what is necessary for baby. I fall on the more minimal side of things but...
Okay, so, never in a million years did I ever think that I would be writing that having a second C-section would be a...
It was my first completely free weekend in a long time, and I had grand plans. I was going to go for a run...
The greatest gift I ever received was a journal, written by my father, documenting my life from the time I was conceived until I...
When I sat down to write this post it was suppose to go in a very different direction than it actually did. I sat...
Tell me you've had it too.
That moment when you open your mouth to say something, and your mother comes out.
It's not a slow morphing...
The idea that I could dismiss someone was new to me, a foreign concept.
I sat in my therapist’s office, drying my eyes, as she...
In + Around Vermont
Winter in Vermont
It is late fall and the temperature drops just enough for the precipitation to turn from pestery rain into beautiful, soft, magical snowflakes and...
