We told him he could have his first friend sleepover. I don’t know why, exactly. It wasn’t a birthday. I just sorta felt like he needed it. To feel like being the Oldest has some sort of super power to […]
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“I love decorating but I’ll never be Joanna.” “I love to speak but I’ll never be Jen Hatmaker.” “I love to cook but I’ll never be on The Chew.” “I love to write but I’ll never be Anne Lamott.” “I love […]
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Snippet 1: Christmas Break and going backward
Posted On January 2, 2018
It’s January 2nd. My children are still off school. And the magic of Christmas has somehow seemed to go out the door with the tree. So far today, two children have had two “quiet times” {aka solitary confinement}, one child […]
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I hope you dance
Posted On December 31, 2017
In 2015, in September, I heard the song, “I hope you dance.” I’d heard it before. But I’d never heard it through those ears. The ears of a 33-year-old-mother who might have breast cancer. The ears of a woman who […]
We are nearing the end. Once again. It’s weird. It happens every single year. When we’re lucky, I guess, it happens. We get an invitation to refresh. We start the year in January. And after 12 months, we find ourselves […]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, right? And there are a million-goings-ons right now. It’s like it’s full-speed-ahead to Christmas Break in my house. And that may mean that sooner than soon, I will be hearing the words: […]
Have a holly trolley Christmas! It’s the best time of the year! Ohhhhhhh, how I love the Holiday season. The songs. The smiles. The total meltdowns when one can’t locate Glyde the Elf. But truly, mostly, the Holidays with kids […]
Okay, friends. Today, I gift you a little piece of my Holiday cheer: Dodie’s Wassail. Dodie is my mom. Yes. That is her name. Kind of. But that’s a whole story for another day. So Dodie. Dodie can almost always […]
I was in therapy a couple of weeks ago and my therapist and I were discussing my writing and my blog. We were also discussing the likelihood that I have ADD. There was a range of discussion. As we discussed […]
Six tiny pills. I didn’t want to start them on the week of Thanksgiving. We had originally hoped my regimen would begin in the late summer. The drug had just met FDA approval. The drug that my Oncologist had texted […]
