Two days ago, I gave away a carload of baby things to a local charity. As I stood there, looking around my garage trying to figure out what to donate, I had this conversation with myself for the five hundred twenty-third time. I should just get rid of the high chair, too. And the co-sleeper….
Category Archives: brothers
Birthday weekends
A little over a year ago, we were given a choice of birthdays for Theo, since he refused to flip over and had to be delivered by c-section. They offered us July 8th as one of our options, but that is Sebastian’s birthday, so I vetoed it. I don’t really care for sharing things like…
Shortchanged?
I was at a park the other day when a friend told me she was thinking more seriously about having a second child, and wanted to know: Do you feel like, with two, you’re able to spread yourself around enough, or do you feel like you’re always shortchanging one or the other? Really, really good…
Theo, the late bloomer
You begin hoping – and, perhaps, praying – that your child is developing normally from the moment you see two lines on the stick. At first, there aren’t too many clues: a blob on an ultrasound that your OB tells you looks great, a racing heartbeat, the constant weight gain, perhaps a blood test or…
Has spring finally arrived?
After a snowy morning yesterday, today it was a sunny spring afternoon. It’s like the universe knew that my soul was withering away from all the rain and cold and constant illness we’ve had, and it sent me sunshine. And my soul smiled.
