In the sea of parenthood we are tumbled like stones upon the shore. Tugged and pulled and pulled and tugged until our edges wear away and we slip by each other in the night without a sound. Gymnastics classes and doctors appointments and grocery lists weave in and out of work and meals and broken [...]
You twist and turn your arm, reaching for more space, presumably - and an alien ripple cascades across my belly. You're moving your wiggly little body down further and further inside me and as I begin to open up for you, I wince in pain, reminding me that our time together, just the two of us, is rapidly [...]
They say distance makes the heart grow fonder, which I can assure you as someone who is married to a chef, is complete bullshit. Distance makes the heart grow resentful, is what it does. But I think maybe whoever it was that coined that phrase wasn't talking about their significant other, but rather, a child. Because [...]
Whenever something bad happens to someone, somebody always chimes in with "why do bad things always happen to such good people?" Usually it's me because I'm the worst at knowing what to say to people when bad things happen. I think people say this to make the person feel better that even though something awful happened [...]
Dear Mia, Today you've been on earth for 566 days. It sounds long, but often a day goes by in a minute. I still remember with surprising clarity what it felt like to meet you. The pain and also the shock, that you were real. The amazement that daddy and I created another person. Especially one as [...]
Being a parent is hard. Being a parent of a newborn is really hard. But for centuries people have continued to have kids (granted some of them not on purpose, and some of them for the purpose of having enough farm hands - but many are lovingly and intentionally brought into this world) and now [...]
Oh Baby Richards 