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….
Category Archives: Theo
Two months ago
He peered around her shoulder, mouth pouting, then rounding into a perfect O as he began to sob. I turned and rushed out, pausing a block away to quiet my pounding heart. They always cry at first. He’ll be fine. Child-free Target held none of its usual joy. Worry clouded every thought. If this third…
Mid night
I was sitting on the floor in my room, hunched in front of the computer screen. Tap, tapping away. Answering emails. Trying to polish up a new post. Visiting other sites. Ignoring the clock as it ticked away. My heart skipped half a beat as I heard the cry come simultaneously out of the monitor…
Accomplishment
I did it. I’ve set a lot of goals over the years. At first they were goals that society set for me, like graduating from college, getting a job, following the beaten path. And I did it with gusto. The beaten path was leading me where I wanted to go and I was clicking along,…
Our story: the next chapter
It’s really strange to know for certain that your child will be born the next day. After weeks of hoping we could get this baby to flip or wondering if I’d go into labor on my own, it became clear the night of July 9th that one way or another, the baby was going to…
