Will write for yarn.
I took my sons to my favorite coffee shop today, the Starlight Cafe. I had to meet someone next door to it, and the cafe is very kid-friendly (thank you Carri!), so I thought it would be fun to pop in and chill for a while with some juice and cookies.
I knew Ethan was tired. [...]
My sixteen month old baby B has started babbling!
Doesn’t sound much like news, does it? But he goes around laughing and talking all the time, and even repeats back to me the words I say to him. While looking me in the eye.
My four year old E never did these things. At some point, his [...]
My babies are curled into me, in that space between chin and thigh that forms when I lie down. We are a comma, a parenthesis at the end of a very long day. I have yelled and grabbed and stomped and slammed, and the day is not quite over. Now we just have to settle [...]
“Artistic? He’s artistic? Well, I guess he gets that from you.”
“No, Mom. I said autistic – they told us he’s autistic. And he has ADHD, but I guess we already knew that.”
“Oh. What, because he has tantrums? He’ll grow out of it, you’ll see. Your brother was like that, he would hold his breath until [...]
I don’t feel poetic tonight
I feel sweaty, sticky, raw from a loud and violent day
with my four-year-old.
Atop the china cabinet is our armory:
Golf clubs, a toy fishing pole, a plastic shovel, a piece of wood splintered from a door jamb.
A plastic sword, a paddle covered with suction cups for catching the rubber ball, a bag [...]
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