Moving house is right up there on the stressor scale, and I really think it wigs me out way more than I let on. As you know, we moved towards the end…
Category: ramble
Ten For Ten.
Sweet child, the idea that you are turning ten leaves me breathless. Every parent says it, but it’s so true for me – I blinked and suddenly you’d morphed from mewling infant…
Pathways
I can judge the level of how well I know someone, and how well they know me, by the things they say about me, to me (and sometimes, not to me). A…
Five Years – Mom.
Dear Mom, When a child turns five, their parents feel this strange sense of pride and longing. Like, five is a “whole hand” and the baby days are very over. You see,…
Not just a black dog.
People call it The Black Dog, but I don’t see it that way. Well, not anymore. I see it more as a day that didn’t go so well. A groundhog day I relive…
Magic Words
I can’t do it today. No, I can’t. I’m too busy and there’s ninety eight other things I have to get done. Yes, I know you want to, and I need it…
Cool To Be Me | Review
As a parent, the thing that keeps me up the most at night is worrying over whether or not I am adequately equipping my kid with the necessary skills and self-confidence to…
For UM. Because, birthday.
It’s your birthday. How funny-wonderful it would be for you, this year, because the wedding has been planned to fall just after your birthday. It was planned around your special day. I…
quiet numbers.
I’ve been battling to write, for me, for a while now. That’s evident from the lack of regular posting here. But then, this evening, as the twilight settled, the dog snoozed and…
There are no resolutions here.
It’s a new year. How you take that and how you handle it is up to you. After all, it’s really just a ticking clock that’s timed over…and, really, that whole system…