My annual tribute to the baby I lost 24 years ago today, the baby I call Grace:
For the past few days I’ve been looking at the numbers on the calendar, growing ...
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My annual tribute to the baby I lost 23 years ago today, the baby I call Grace:
For the past few days I’ve been looking at the numbers on the calendar, ...
Dennis and I were sitting around the kitchen table one morning talking with our son, Noah, who is home from college for the summer and working full time for the ...
Here’s the Life Lines column I wrote 15 years ago, in the days following 9/11. So much has changed since that time. Our world has changed. My family has ...
Usually I run the same annual post in this space on August 6, the day I lost my second child to miscarriage. But this year feels a little bit different. As ...
My annual post in remembrance of the baby I never got to meet:
For the past few days I've been looking at the numbers on the calendar, growing more and more ...
Noah headed out on a winter camping trip tonight. The angst leading up to his departure made it clear, once again, that we have definitely entered the dreaded ...
I'm in a bad way this week. Too much work, not enough time. The usual thing. I'm doing a lot of feeling sorry for myself as I sulk about my incredibly difficult ...
My post from OSV Daily Take today:Jennifer over at Conversion Diary has posted a moving interview with the parents of Sunni, a severely disabled little girl who ...
I first came across this incredibly funny essay on parenting years ago. Now it's back in circulation, and just as funny as ever. If you have children or know ...
Chiara turned three years old today. Hard to believe. That’s her up there in her princess outfit and tiara, looking very birthday girl-ish. This photo captures ...
Well, we survived Olivia’s birthday sleep over. The weather held out and the girls were able to do the water slide, which was way more popular than I expected ...
In just two hours -- TWO!! -- five little girls will descend upon my house to join Olivia for her big birthday sleep over blowout. What was I thinking when I ...
In case anyone is wondering why I haven’t been blogging regularly -- as if I’m that important -- here’s the deal: It has been the craziest June ever. We seem to ...
So here we are, six sweaty but dedicated moms (I’m second from left), doing what we need to do to help our daughters become confident, well-rounded young women ...
So we made it through our brief camping trip none the worse for wear. OK, maybe a little the worse for wear, but that was to be expected. Considering the fact ...
Olivia and I went out tonight on a quest for a camping “dunk bag,” which, if you’ve never gone camping -- and unfortunately I have -- is a mesh bag that allows ...
I always figured that at some point one of my children would probably decide to give vegetarianism a try. I don’t know why. Maybe because I’ve told them ...
Tomorrow Olivia and I will head to that mecca of materialism, the American Girl Store on Fifth Avenue. We’re doing lunch at the American Girl Cafe, catching a ...
We were sitting on the metal bleachers at Noah’s Little League game the other night, and Chiara, in typical fashion, was spinning and climbing and falling and ...