Category Archives: To my children

One thing I’ve learned in my two years as a mom to siblings is that conversations about the subtle differences between ‘fair’ and ‘equal’ rarely make anyone feel good. I suspect this may change as they grow older and follow more »

Earlier this week, I was asked to be on an online TV show. It was a very exciting morning here, complete with lots of webcam testing and surveying the light in different parts of my house (not to mention trying more »

My girl, Two years ago, I sat right here and wrote you a letter before your first, first day of school. I wrote about how big that moment was. How scary but how exciting. I wrote about how I would more »

My sweet, baby boy, One year ago, this very minute, you and I were waking up to greet your first full day in this world. We were tired. So tired. Mine was that just-gave-birth exhaustion. What I have come to more »

My girl, Last week, we had a countdown going. Last 3 days of being 3. Last 2 days of being 3. Last day. Last breakfast. Last drive to school. Last ice cream cone. Last bedtime. The night before the big more »