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Feel the six coming 31 Jul 2013 | 11:40 am
My head is full of stories. If I were a good little blogger, I would tell you about riding the train across Chicago, about BlogHer13, about helping emcee the Listen To Your Mother Open Mic Salon, abo...
Good things 21 Jul 2013 | 12:34 am
There are few places a child looks smaller than in a hospital bed or getting on a school bus. One moment a huge four-year-old boy is tromping about demanding pee breaks every 15 minutes of an eight-ho...
Ripping off the bandaid 16 Jul 2013 | 09:16 am
Do you know what the hardest part of contemplating fostering has been? Not state scrutiny of our lives. Not 3:00 a.m. feedings. Not making sure to avoid the mistakes that led to our past failures. ...
Write here 7 Jul 2013 | 10:14 pm
I haven’t mentioned my Friday spot at Mamalode in a while. This Friday I wrote a piece about Quinn and me and how wild we are for each other. Not quite in the way that you might expect. Let’s just say...
A fourth trip around the sun 29 Jun 2013 | 11:08 am
Nate was a twin. For eight weeks after his conception, I crawled though sticky days in a two-room cement apartment, dry heaving and listlessly entertaining my three toddlers with Dora videos. A thre...
In the event of an emergency, your seat is a flotation device 23 Jun 2013 | 10:22 am
I didn’t take the kids’ life jackets to Arizona. That probably doesn’t sound like a big deal, but in my life it was HUGE. I hate to be cold and wet, so swimming isn’t my favorite activity in the fir...
A day of not only no, but hell no 17 Jun 2013 | 10:24 am
I read an article a while ago – I can’t remember when or where I found it. It might have been the NYTimes on-line or on one of the many literary-ish mothering sites I read. It was very well-written,...
Ring pops are the answer 10 Jun 2013 | 11:10 am
“To what?” you ask. “The universe? World peace? Everything?” What is the question? I’m going to tell you. Last Friday, the kids and I flew to Arizona to spend a week with my parents and both my sist...
Ring pops are the answer 10 Jun 2013 | 11:10 am
“To what?” you ask. “The universe? World peace? Everything?” What is the question? I’m going to tell you. Last Friday, the kids and I flew to Arizona to spend a week with my parents and both my sist...
A friend in me 26 May 2013 | 09:35 pm
No matter how well my kids are doing, I’m trained to worry at the trouble spots like decaying teeth. I can look at our handsome, mostly kind, almost eight year old boy and see an avid reader, a talen...