Remember back in the day when there was actual time to write? Lately I’ve felt like day to day life is swallowing me whole. Everybody needs something from me, and if it isn’t an actual person who needs boogers or a poopy rear end wiped, then it’s the pile of dishes in the sink and…
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The thing about parenting is that you think it’s super hard when they’re tiny – and it is! It’s physically exhausting. But something happens as the kids age and it’s no longer the physicality of parenting; it becomes more emotionally difficult. I mean, you know, GREAT. Right? JUST. GREAT. Just when you’ve gotten that…
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A few weeks ago, Jude came home from school asking for special tennis shoes that he somehow couldn’t quite describe. “I NEED them, Mom. I WANT them!” After some amount of back and forth about the shoes, I finally figured out that the kid was asking for high tops. The preppy in me felt an…
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