My sweet little man, each time I sit down to write what I know, I wonder if I’ll be able to do my emotions justice by my words. Emotions are the best part of being who we were born to be; they’re the colors we use to draw outside all the lines, baby. You’re going …
Advice
Who loves a compliment? WHO?! Me. You. ALL THE WORLD. We’ll get to that soon enough. This post is a windy, wandering, wisp of what I’d actually like to say but can’t articulate because my innards, where all my feels live, were blown away and took most of my words in the aftermath when a …
I am a mother of a son. When he was born and the doctor held him up triumphantly like a much sought after trophy as he exclaimed, “It’s a boy!” I took in a deep breath of relief. A boy. I know boys; I can mother a boy. What if Boy had been a girl? …
How’s your to-do list looking? How high is your laundry pile? Does the idea of staying focused long enough to plan anything, a party, a meal, a day with friends make you want to collapse into a nap? Are your eyebrows squinched together in annoyance, just reading this? Yeah, I know how you feel. I’m …
I’ve written about drowning before and how the actual process of drowning doesn’t look like you might think it would (if you missed that important post, you can read it HERE). Today, let’s take a look at secondary drowning. If you’re like most of the world, when it gets hot, you want to cool off …
Dear Sweet E, I’ve left you with so much advice in this last year. So many words about the things I know to be true. Maybe some of my wisdom won’t be what you need or remotely apply to the where you’re headed. Maybe you’ll humor your granny and tell me that it was a …
In the last year, as Sweet E has grown, I keep finding myself telling Husband, “I need to tell Boy/Girl _____. No one ever told me that and I wished they had.” The best advice no one ever gave me, but would have been gratefully received, was that we’d make it through whatever calamity or …
When I learned to read, you could pretty much find me with a book in my hands from there on out. Especially if that book had been written by Dr. Seuss. I was entranced by his lyrical use of seemingly normal words and by his imagination when creating others. It’s with his words that I …
Beat downs (to harass or crush one’s spirit) come in many forms. I’ve suffered more than I can count in my life and I have some advice I’d like to offer about how to recover from one that seems insurmountable. Nope, I’m not talking about our recent foray into the world of buying a car …
While this is definitely a post for Sweet E, it’s also a post for all of us, because sometimes we can use the reminder. March is here. Did you notice? The first day of spring is thisclose. I even have photographic proof: All of this means that it’s been a couple of months since we …