Evaline turns three today, and I haven’t made a single plan for her day. She did not wake up with balloons or with a special breakfast. She did not run out to see a gift on the table, or even a card. She woke up,… Read More
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Letters to My Daughter: Ocean
I saw us today, you and I, in the brief glimmer of your face before you did your very best to slam your bedroom door. It was you, seven and indignant, brows furrowed, grunting something about me and how I never and you were shaking… Read More
Busy, But
We crossed paths in the clearance clothing racks of Walmart. I held a list in one hand and a pile of garments in the other. Lila was pushing the carriage back and forth, and just enough to jostle her soundly sleeping sister awake. Evie burst… Read More
Closerthanthis
During one of the cabin-fever snow days of this month (which has had so many, I am losing count,) Lila came to me to ask if she and I could do each other’s make up. I had not showered, had no desire to have little… Read More
Friday
So, it’s Friday. But unlike last Friday, or next Friday, this is the Friday where we live in a sea of doily hearts and construction paper love. Our kitchen table has been painted over in smears of pink and dots of glitter glue. (Evaline has… Read More
Just a Minute
For those not aware, I have begun a personal project during my photography “off season.” The site is Just a Minute: Moments in Motherhood. I have a few writings there that are more project specific, but the one I wrote today seemed fitting for The… Read More
Favor & Blessing
I’m home today for the first time this week. In a week of busyness, of work and holidays and the remnants of Christmas cheer blending into blizzards and the starting of a new year, last night I slept in my own bed for the first… Read More
And Breathe
I’m just going to go ahead and be honest here. I had a moment last week, a whole week moments, really, a week of lessons that quickly devolved into little more than coloring and writing letters to Santa and watching Veggie Tale movies about the… Read More
Today
My grandmother and I hugged and asked each other the same question we always ask at these things, these family cookouts, Christmas parties, get-togethers. How’s life? She asked first, and so I let loose the usual Oh, busy, busy, busy, diapers, portrait sessions, kids in my hair,… Read More
Please
Here’s a (not so big) secret about me: I cannot say no. Unless you are under five feet tall and either directly descended from me or placed in my care for babysitting – I will find a way to give you whatever you ask for.… Read More
The Frozen Moon 