Have I mentioned before how much I love birthdays? I think I have. But the last few have been…well… disappointing. I spend too much time lately feeling inadequate, like I’m not sure what I’ve really accomplished so far or where I’m going next. I feel mediocre. But on my birthday, it is magnified so that…
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…
It’s hard to send your kids off to school for the first time. And sending both of them at once? Excruciating. Also wonderful. Let’s start with hard first, to get it out of the way. First, there is the decision itself. People here start looking at preschools in January. That’s right, eight months in advance….
As many of you know, I was sitting here last Wednesday feeling helpless. I had intended to write about Sebastian’s first soccer class and Theo’s first toddler class, but when I sat down to Just Write, all of these “I can’t” feelings poured out of me. And I received much sympathy and many virtual hugs,…
It’s a rule. You hear it endlessly repeated at every playground: “We don’t climb up the slide. We go around and use the steps.” I say it, too. But just like everyone else who has a kid older than crawling-up-stairs age, I finally accepted the fact that children want to climb up slides. They will…
