We made it almost 4.5 years before our first visit to children’s urgent care, so despite the fact that Josuha has a broken bone, I’d say we’ve done okay, right? Joshua’s first broken bone comes courtesy of a fall from the swing. While it wasn’t moving. He was sitting there waiting to be pushed and…
i love my son
The First of Many
Last night I buzzed around the house labeling and packing and organizing and picking out clothes. I fretted. I worried. I hoped. I thought about the past 4 years and looked ahead to the next 14. I remembered the car ride home from the hospital and how that was just yesterday, wasn’t it? I looked to…
One More Week
Just over a year ago, I turned in my letter of resignation and embarked on this journey of SAHMomming two kids. And now here I am, with only one week left with both of them here. If Prufrock measured out his life in coffee spoons, in just one more week, I’m going to be measuring…
When I Was Your Age…
Joshua’s in that fun zone of childhood where he likes to pretend to be someone else. And in pretending to be someone else we inevitably all become characters in whatever fantasy land he’s living in for the day. Or the minute. Because that’s how rapidly our identities change these days. Some days he’s “Somic” and…
Press Your Luck!
Does everyone remember this game? Press Your Luck? You have a button and a game board and the game board blinks and the contestants chant “Big Bucks! Big Bucks!! NO WHAMMIES! BIG BUCKS!” while the board blinks and then they slam their fist on the button and hope. Contestants might win a TV, or a…