I unbuckle their carseats, and they hop down all by themselves and race/toddle toward the front door. My hands are free to grab the bags. I look around as I pick them up, as though unsure why my shoulders are so light. ————————– “I’m done with breakfast,” he announces, clearing his place. “Now I’m going…
Category Archives: capturing a moment before it flies away
Of boys and haircuts and lollipops
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…
Someday
It is impossible to follow all the parenting advice we get from the moment we announce that we plan to join The Club. The toughest? “Enjoy every moment.” There is a part of you that knows this advice comes from a place of nostalgia, from a parent who has forgotten all the miserable, tear-your-hair-out moments that…
Our winter wonderland
What is it about us that we can avoid laundry, dishes, bills, and work like the plague, but lose ourselves for hours trying to master a new technology? That was me this weekend, attempting to figure out how to use iMovie for the first time. I started small, making a short 60 second video for…
The minor milestones
I originally wrote this as a Facebook note, back when I was new to both FB and to blogging. Now, two and a half years later, I keep thinking back to it as I watch Theo attain each one of these. So here it is again, with some updates in honor of the little man….
