The kids and I were leaving their daycare, and just like other days since the weather changed, when all other children across this fine country are donning fleece-lined coats, my kids flat out refused to wear their coats. Just like other days since they began refusing I replied with a heavy sigh and a “let’sContinue reading “What looks like bad parenting…”
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‘Twas the Night Before
Tonight J and I put Grace to bed together, taking turns with reading books and singing songs and playing the nightly light game– where one of us turns off the light as a sign it’s time for bed, and she turns it back on, and we turn it back off… We both feel guilty thatContinue reading “‘Twas the Night Before”
To Grampy, With Love
A parent should never outlive their child. Truth as there is behind this one simple statement, it does not make it any easier when a child loses a parent. It may hurt a little less for my mom to lose my grandmother, now in her 90s, than it would for me to lose my 50-somethingContinue reading “To Grampy, With Love”