Even before I started looking I knew the evidence was all around our house. My first clue was the lone baby sock I discovered in the bottom of a suitcase. He hasn’t been able to wear it in three years. The tiny, white, soft sock, still smelled of Dreft made me nostalgic, yes but also…
Just a year ago your world revolved around Thomas the Train & Friends, this year, it is all about Cars. Just months ago you were overcome with anxiousness at swim lessons and now you can lap the entire length of the pool all by yourself. Just weeks ago you started your second year of preschool…
I hope my son doesn’t remember. I hope he can’t recall everything I say and do. I’d rather his memories of me standing in front of the mirror plucking my gray hairs and applying face masks be fuzzy. Just as I’d rather he completely block out the time I yelled at him so loudly my…
No matter what anyone says, turning 40 is a big deal. You spend your whole 39th year thinking about it. At least I did. Especially the last few months, weeks and days. In just four more sleeps I will wake up 40. 40. It sounds so… foreign. You thought I was going to say old,…
I had the pleasure of meeting Nicole of By Word of Mouth Musings at BlogHer last year. I first fell in love with her South African accent and then her heart. This woman does it all and then some; she is a mother, wife, blogger, home schooler and is one of the kindest, most thoughtful…
Jennifer of Midwest “Mom”ents is kind and always very supportive. She has a darling blog about her life and two adorable daughters and keeps late Twitter hours, which is where we connect the most. I am grateful to have (Not Just Another) Jennifer here today with a sad, yet very loving letter to her mother….
It must be nice to be a baby. Everyone gushes over babies. Everyone wants to hold babies or be close enough to them to take in their scent and hope that some of their innocence, their newness rubs off. Babies are life-affirming. Babies and children are lucky. They have someone at their beck and call…
I dread his birthday, our anniversary, Christmas, Father’s Day and every other occasion that requires a gift because my husband is IMPOSSIBLE to shop for. He buys everything he wants and he’s very picky. There, I said it out loud and for all the world wide web to read. Trust me, it’s nothing I haven’t…
My Letters For You guest this week is the very pregnant KLZ, otherwise known as, Kristin, who writes the hilarious blog Taming Insanity and if that isn’t enough, she is also one of the co-founders of Eli Rose Social Media. Plus, she can rock a pair of reindeer antlers like nobody’s business! Dear 8 year…
People don’t like to discuss death. In many circles, the topic of death and dying is one of those taboo subjects, right up there with religion and politics, however, when it comes to death, there is no debate. Death is final and it is going to happen to all of us. Death is the great…
