Posted in Reflections on May 9th, 2008
When I held Cody for the first time, the love I felt for this scrawny, red baby, whose massive head took up the majority of the 7 lbs., 8 oz., he weighed, staggered me. I didn’t know love could come so sharply, complete rapture at its heels. I took him home and spent long minutes staring [...]
Posted in Reflections on May 8th, 2008
I sit on the couch with him, listening to his deep, yet still babyish voice retelling the story I just read him. He skips whole sentences and paragraphs, but he knows the gist of the story, even reciting some complete phrases with that pronounced lisp he has. I look at the top of his head, [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 4th, 2008
We live in beef country. Not only do we live in beef country, but the kids’ grandfather raises cattle and we buy all our beef from him. It’s just about the only meat we eat in this house. We might have the occasional pork or chicken, but those have to be purchased at the store, [...]
Posted in Humor on Apr 16th, 2008
Cody came into my office today and saw the little key for his diary (he uses it to draw pictures) on my bookshelf. “Oh, look! I found the key to my diarrhea!” he said.
Posted in Lessons on Mar 4th, 2008
Don’t you just love it when your kids do something sweet and innocently beautiful? Something that you’ll remember for the rest of your life because it was so darn cute and endearing? Logan crawled into bed with me a couple mornings ago. As I tried to go back to sleep — I’m not quite ready [...]
Posted in Introduction on Feb 9th, 2008
I know, I know — there are a million blogs about parenting out there. So why, oh why, would I decide to create one of my own, you ask? The answer is that I consider myself somewhat of a parenting expert, thanks to my four children and their assorted health issues. I’m a freelance writer and [...]
