“Mama, I’m driving my truck!” “Where are you going?” I ask, without looking up from the dishes. “I’m going to the grocery store.” “Good thinking. What do we need there?” I ask him while prying a stray Lego out of Theo’s mouth. Round and round the kitchen he drives his truck, keeping up the running…
Category Archives: relationships
Push Pull
I never thought I’d be a stay-at-home mom. In classic pre-parenthood style, I was sure I had a good idea of what life with a child would be like, and I knew that I wanted to do more than be a mother. But I also wanted to be home, so half-time was the obvious solution,…
The miracle
A miracle happened at my house this week. It isn’t the sort that will bestow sainthood on anyone, but it is just slightly shy of utterly life-changing. It started with this book. My dear friends sent it to us for Christmas, and wow, do they ever know us. The book is called Switch: How to…
Figuring out the in-law thing
The realization washed over me while I was still in the hospital after my second son was born. Someday, it will happen. I will become the mother-in-law. I don’t know how it is in other cultures, but in mine – white, middle-class, suburban America – so often, her mother is the mom and his is…
A decade and a half
Minus 7 In those days we were Just Friends. We met freshman year, before classes even began, waiting in line for an English class that I would end up dropping. But the boy who turned out to live upstairs from me was a keeper. The following summer we took our very first road trip together…
