I just have to state it. My son is awesome. He is super awesome. I just have to state it. I do so everyday. Stating it and stating it frequently fills me with enormous joy. Many of us who are parents think our children are precious and […]
It pains me It confounds me It torments me One day, I won’t be here for you anymore One day, I will wave goodbye One day, You will live on without my arms around you Only pictures will remain And my joyous tears no more I don’t know […]
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. Mitch Hedberg A very small group of people will completely get and understand my following statement. I hate water. Well, let me rephrase. I hate drinking water. For that matter, I also hate ice cubes. […]
I’m a lucky mom. My son means the world to me and he knows it. He goes out into the world secure of my love. I feel happiness in that thought. His birthday was two weeks ago and we’ve been celebrating it the last two weeks culminating in […]
Have you ever looked forward to a day so badly to then only have the pains of life, both literally and figuratively, intervene in the way that day progresses? I feel this often happens to me. Sometimes, you build up days and events so much that there is […]
I’m going to start off with a cliché. Time flies. And clichés are based in part on reality. I stare at my son’s newborn pictures and can’t wrap my head around the fact that he is growing up. He just started third grade. When he wears sneakers his […]
For many of us in the Generation X group, we are starting to hit our stride in the world. We were lost for a while. At times, we didn’t care. But now, we are in upper management positions and we have a bit of history on which to […]
Dear friend, permit me a small ramble. Permit me a stream of consciousness about my son. If you want to know my conclusion up front, well here it is. I am in awe of my son’s lask of fear. Now, let me backtrack a bit. This past […]
I am older than my sister by more than nine years. I grew up partly as an only child. With nine years into such a status, it was a bit hard to switch to being an older sister. I went from being the one and only to being […]
Many, many years ago, I told everyone that would listen or as that I was not going to have a child. Ever. I was happy without a screaming kid tugging at my skirt. I was happy without a crying baby tugging at my chest at 2am. I […]
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