The Last First Birthday

June 12, 2014

  How can this baby possibly be one year old?   This is making me way too emotional, knowing he’s my last, and so this is the last first birthday I’ll ever celebrate. I meet a lot of people who tell me that they are not “baby people” — that they love having kids, but […]

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The Five Stages of Escaping Your Kids for the Weekend

June 11, 2014

I rarely have plans on the weekends anymore. Unless you count kids’ sports and birthday parties and laundry. Then, yes, my weekends are packed. And yet, as social karma would have it, I had two exciting places to be this past weekend, without kids, at the same time. I was so excited to be attending […]

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The Space Between

June 2, 2014

Anniversaries of loss are strange postmarks in time. You know the date is coming — it looms in the season, the weather, the calendar. And when it arrives, you somehow feel simultaneously taken by surprise by the passage of time and anchored to the feeling that it has been so long since you’ve seen a […]

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Back it Up

May 28, 2014

The colors of the world look a little sharper today. The birds are singing a little louder. My arms look slightly thinner in photos (not really). It’s a lovely, lovely day. Because I have my computer back. I’ll give you a minute to finish rolling your eyes. Are we good? OK. Long story short, the […]

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The Rules of the Road

May 2, 2014

I’m lucky that my husband does not travel very often for his job. There was a time — an exceptionally crazy time — in our lives when he did, and it was nearly the end of me. I’m grateful that those days are behind us. At least for now. He did have a trip this […]

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Seven

April 24, 2014

Seven snuck up on me. Even though I know what follows six. Even though he had a four-month countdown going. Even though I bought the gifts and made the cakes. Still. Seven snuck up on me in a lot of ways. It snuck up on me that, on the rare occasion when he falls asleep […]

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Magical, Mostly

April 9, 2014

If the measure of one’s vacation is how many metric tons of French fries and ice cream one consumed, then I pretty much just took the trip of a lifetime. We spent eight nights at Walt Disney World and, I have to say, I am having serious withdrawal. When I came home and was faced […]

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The Need for Speed

March 24, 2014

There are certain times in the course of my marriage when I’m particularly grateful to have wed an engineer. Like when the minivan needs to be packed with Jenga-like precision for a family road trip. Or when something goes inexplicably wrong with the cable box. Or when a Cub Scout leader hands your six year-old […]

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What Would You Say About Your Husband in a Book?

February 24, 2014

I have often accused my husband of Party Sabotage. It comes up every time we have people over, whether it’s just a few friends or a group of 30 for Christmas. I don’t know if it’s a Mars/Venus thing, or if we have different priorities, or what. All I know is that I tend to […]

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Wine & Glue & 100 Days of School

February 19, 2014

I need gray hair spray. And a flannel shirt. And maybe suspenders, I guess. My son is supposed to dress up like his 100 year-old self, as are all of the kids in his class. You know, for the 100th Day of School celebration, of course. I have a few questions about this — let […]

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