You guys. My baby boy, the pioneer child, the one who taught me what it means to be a mom is starting Kindergarten. Tomorrow. (It won’t bother me one bit if you pin this. Nope. Not one bit.) Tomorrow I will have pictures and a letter/wishes for him to post here, because parts of this…
Joshua
The First of Twenty
Joshua turning five was a big deal, for me and for him. He will proudly tell anyone who will listen that he’s five years old, spreading out each of the fingers on his right hand and waving his open palm at them, as if they can’t possibly know what he means without the visual aid….
Tomorrow You Are Five
Dear Joshua, Tomorrow you are five. When you wake up, I’ll give you cupcakes and ask you what you want to do with the day. You’ll say “play Mario Kart Channel” because you’ve been waiting for this day for a year. Five. There’s something about this birthday that feels so much bigger–more–than the others. It…
The Third Side of the Triangle
It’s my morning habit to scroll through Facebook to see what’s happened in the world while I was sleeping. What’s hot and where. This morning there was a post in my newsfeed from Huffington Post about food allergies. The author, apparently, believes that her kids’ right to have a class party trumps the rights of…
Just One Minute
Joshua, my best boy and pioneer child, has developed a new habit in the mornings. Actually, both of the kids have developed this habit. They start every day in the bed with me. Sometimes they come crawling in as early as 4:45 (too early) or as late as 7:15 (which might still be too early,…