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I had a particularly emotional morning, and came home from dropping the kids at day care in tears. Tim ushered me through my tears and fears and concerns with grace (especially considering he’s recovering from the latest gastrointestinal bug that has befallen our household). Then he showed me this video. And my day brightened considerably. [...]
I do not have a sister, but if I did I’d like to think that I would feel this way about her, too. Because while I love my brothers now, I’m pretty sure that I was not this excited about them when we were the ages of Eleanor and Alice. I realize that the relationship [...]
When people see me they ask how the kids are doing with the adjustment to having a new sister. “Really well,” is usually my answer, “almost too well. We have to stop the serious love they want to shower her with.” And these statements are true: they do love her, they do want to shower [...]
Growing up and going to college in Maine, Boston was my go-to for a “big city” experience. In college, I had many friends who lived just outside Boston and I spent many summers there, doing what college students do – a little of everything and nothing really at all. I loved going to Boston’s museums, [...]
My third, and final, baby was born one week ago yesterday. She (yes she!) is amazing. Alice Margaret (Eleanor insists on using her full name) is 7 lbs 12 oz of pure joy. I know most parents – all parents – will say that about their kids, as well they should, but with Alice I [...]
Tomorrow morning at 8:30 our lives will be forever changed. Tatu (that’s baby #3′s nickname, for the uninitiated) is scheduled to be delivered then. I am excited to meet this little person that has a been somersaulting around my uterus over the last many months, and ready for this debilitating sciatica to become a distant [...]
I have to admit something of which I am very ashamed. I don’t really want to, but I have to. This has to be something that I talk about; that I put out into the universe. Mostly because I want to take ownership of it and not try to blame it on the illness or [...]
I don’t remember where he saw this (likely it was You Tube), but my dad tells a story about a little girl – she’s young, maybe 4 – who was going through number flashcards with her parents. In the video they hold the cards up, and she happily shouts the answer. The numbers are big [...]
In need of two eggs for dinner, I ran over to our neighbors’ house the other night. Jenny and I chatted for a while inside her door as she pulled the eggs from the fridge. “How are you feeling?” she asked, nodding to my stomach. “And how far along are you now?”I stumbled and stuttered [...]
I grew up in a family of five. Until I was a junior in college (at which point I finally relinquished it) my brothers shared a bedroom, and it wasn’t until my parents moved (when I was out of college and my youngest brother a senior in high school) that they had a house with [...]
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