Dear Joshua, Today you are eight. I’ve had eight whole years of being your mom, and I gotta tell you, those eight years have been pretty fantastic. I mean, sure, we’ve had some seriously not fantastic moments (like that time you locked me out of the house and I broke down the door to get to…
a letter to Joshua
Dear Joshua, On Your First Day of Kindergarten
Dear Joshua, Today you started Kindergarten. I always fret and worry about you and big changes in your life, and man, this year is going to bring a few of those. Kindergarten feels like such a big deal, a much bigger deal than any change we’ve weathered so far. You feel so big and yet…
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…
A letter to my son on his second birthday
Dear Joshua, Watching you grow up this past year has been a blur. A blur of you. You’ve changed so much, so fast! It’s been hard for me to keep up. One minute you were unsteady on your feet and the next you were running through the house like a silly boy. It’s so hard…
Top Ten Tuesday–Things for Which I’m Thankful
1. The understanding of the rules of grammar and the English language and knowing that you don’t end a sentence with a preposition. Just kidding. Sort of. Maybe not. Whatever. It’s time again for Top Ten Tuesday with my girl Katie of Sluiter Nation. This week is all about giving thanks and being grateful. And…
Alright, y’all, I’m about to get up on my plus-sized soapbox
Is there such a thing as “weight-ist”? “Fat-ist?” No? Well, there should be. This? This is not normal. About a week after the Britney episode of Glee I overheard a group of my students, two boys and one girl, talking during their five-minute free time at the end of class. One of the boys said…
How is it possible that he’s 18 months old already?
We had another good day today, despite the fact that it ended in tears from Joshua because of his 18 month shots. We rested and ate and danced and sang and cuddled and played and had a really good day. Nothing else got done around here, despite how much other stuff around here needs doing,…
So I only cried three times today..
Okay. Four. Maaaybe five. I couldn’t help it, y’all. I was all sorts of nervous when I got up this morning. Joshua was crying and I must’ve sat in the nursery holding him and smelling him for half an hour until I put him back in the crib because he’d fallen asleep on my shoulder….
And just like that, I know I don’t suck at this
My baby is sick, y’all. He slept a solid 12 hours last night and didn’t make a peep. That’s not normal. He was playing like he usually does this morning and everything was going great. We needed to go get milk and I tweeted that I thought we’d go before his nap and before I’d…
Motherhood is…
“Motherhood is love at first sight. It’s not having any stylish clothes for yourself, but owning the entire latest line from Gymboree. It is more difficult than the bar exam. It’s more rewarding than a big fat paycheck. It’s as much fun as college, just in a different way. It’s Lullabies instead of Ludacris. It…