Oh my baby girl! My sweetest, second baby girl…I can’t believe that Claire is SIX. Man. Time! If “Time” were a real person (although I always write about it like it is), I’d give her a talking to right now — because, Ms. Time, I blink and you’ve changed my babies…
View PostI get asked here and there what it’s like to have four kids, and the runner-up Q is always, “What it’s like to have four GIRLS?” A one-gender family is semi-rare; we turn heads but, then again, we always find other “girl families.” It’s fun. A lot of fun. As…
View PostI remember Claire’s birth so vividly. She came one day after her due date at sunrise, after I labored through the night. She brought so much peace to what was a unhappy delivery room (the doctor on-call that night was annoyed that I was laboring naturally with her; I was…
View PostI have an extra quiet house to myself tonight and an extra small to-do list, so I’m treating myself to writing here tonight. “Finally,” says my soul, and “hooooray.” 💛 I have three posts that I want to share before Christmas (which is in FOUR DAYS. ?!?!), starting with my…
View PostThat means so much to so many of our people – new schedules, new routines, moms making plans for how they’ll fill their days. We’ve been living in summer mode for the last year, so we can’t really relate to the change. We’re probably the only people counting down till…
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