I was in the sixth grade when I created my first email account—at the same time my parents created their first account. By early high school I was IMing with friends about tennis tryouts and boy crushes. In college, a roommate introduced me to a new online service that was trickling down from ivy …
Merry Christmas!
Yesterday my sweet Quinn turned 9 months old. She has now been outside of my belly for as long as she was inside of it. I'm celebrating the end of one phase and the beginning of the next. For me, having a baby basically consumes a year and a half of my life. Pregnancy wipes me out and sends my …
How Our Son Will See Us
He'll see our broken relationship. This sweet boy of mine. He'll see misfired words and two people trying so hard not to take offense when none was intended. He'll hear us talk about heavy things that I *think* are going right over his head. He'll see me roll my eyes when I shouldn't and lose a …
Gold
I'd been needing this kind of a weekend. I know it's a bit late to be sharing these with you—it being a Tuesday and all. But at the moment, I'd rather just stare at the pictures and imagine I'm still there. :) (Btw, in the photo above, that is Trenton's bum in the distance. He's bending down to …
Milestones for Moms
We watch eagerly for our children to hit their milestones. We're bursting to show the whole world when our baby learns to clap...or sit up...or (eventually) write his name. What we sometimes miss, though, are the milestones we're hitting—as moms. Do you remember the first time you— To read my …
The Tides Are Changing: The New Message for Moms
The tides are changing. Can you feel it? A few years ago, women took to the internet with a message: how to savor every moment of motherhood. It goes so fast, they told us. You'll blink and it'll be gone. We licked up these writers' words because the message resonated. "Yes! I want to remember …
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