One of the biggest challenges about having two kids (aside from, you know, taking care of two small people as opposed to one) is not comparing them. As you live through it the second time around, you are inevitably pulled back to the first time. Then you (and by you, I mean me) start trying…
Category Archives: brothers
Toddler school drop-outs
From toddlerhood through adulthood, most of us have the sense that fairness and equality require sameness. The same number of toys, the same size pieces, and the same schools, of course. Separate but equal is unjust, remember? But in parenthood, equality doesn’t mean giving each child the same. It means giving each child what they…
Baby books in progress
I’m on day 3 of my 33-Day Challenge, and so far I’ve done one and a half tasks out of 30. I began with baby books because (I thought) each of them was about half done and mostly just required me to sit down and focus on it. That was true of Theo’s, and I…
Five years of fall tradition
Though it takes me a while to sort through my 2 million pictures (give or take a million), I love to go back and find pictures that show our family traditions from one year to the next. It’s especially important to me since I’ve had to either alter old ones or create new ones since…
Where we’re from
I’m from Michigan, but my boys are not. They are from Washington. I’m from suburban Detroit, and They’re from suburban Seattle. I’m from lakes of every size: small ponds and twinkly blue neighborhood lakes and Great Lakes that stretch farther than the eye can see. They’re from lakes, too, but also rivers and the Sound…
