The Importance of Being Bored.
She looks out the window at the wash of clouds feathering the late afternoon sky. Our car turns a corner, and her head moves to continue looking at this same spot. She tells us...
Category: Writing and Motherhood
When Mom Gets Sick.
Mastitis is as awful as I’ve heard, although I had preferred not to personally corroborate this. It’s everything I’ve heard, and then worse because it’s my breast, and fever, and family it’s affecting. When...
I Will Be Their Home.
I will be their home. I remember when I was little, and I would go for an overnight at a friend’s house. For awhile, it was incredibly special—all of that newness—and then, eventually, I...
The Hardest Part Of Being A Parent
The rain comes down so heavily that the grass becomes a muddy pond. Rings of water droplets are visible from inside the house, as I look out the window. My daughter asks for snow and,...
The Surprising Parenting Lesson I Learned at the Dentist.
I’d never had my teeth whitened in any way, until six months ago. I was getting a filling on a front tooth replaced and decided, when they were matching the shade, to have my...
When We Are Missing Our “Village.”
Right now, for a few minutes, I’m on the computer when I “should” be playing with my kids. Apparently, according to all of this sage parenting “wisdom” out there, it’s not okay to ever...
Letting Go Like a Girl.
On rewriting our limitations: I tell my girls they can be anything, not because I believe they can be, but because I want them to believe it. I wanted to be a writer as...
There Is No Such Thing as a Play-By-Play After a Day with Kids.
I was melted into the heated passenger seat of my car as my husband drove our little family to the grocery store. It was late—after dinner—and the darkness was lessened by the twinkling shop lights...
Why I’m Not Waiting Until My Kids Are Older to Enjoy My Life.
It’s commonly accepted that stay-at-home mothers give up their lives temporarily, only to reclaim them later on when the kids are older. This is problematic for several reasons, the least being that a parent’s...
Why I Plan on Being a Stay-At-Home Mom When My Kids Are Teenagers.
The difficulty of the world didn’t hit me full-force until I was an older child. Still young and fairly innocent, I think I was seven or eight when I realized that not all kids...
