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Love

11 Nov What Earth Angel and Maleficent have to do with one another

Posted at 04:31h in Bad stuff, Feelings, Love 1 Comment

As kids, my little sister and I liked to dance to oldies tunes and Disney songs. We'd put on shows for my parents and give them tickets to our performances. I sometimes danced around by myself. More so in the dancing-by-myself moments, I'd grab a pillow...

14 Oct Perfect boy

Posted at 01:26h in Feelings, Love, Parenting 0 Comments

Henry's so good. It doesn't make for funny stories so I don't often write about how good he is in my Family Time column, but he's really just so good. Today after dinner as I was putzing in the kitchen, I heard him playing the slide...

22 Aug Terrible Two

Posted at 20:31h in Family, Family Time, Love, milestones, Time 0 Comments

My son Henry turned two on August 22. On the eve of his first birthday, I went through his tiny baby clothes and heaved profound guttural sobs over the loss of my little newborn son. I remember him seeming so big compared to his first onesies, and...

09 Apr Parenting is just a bunch of letting go

Posted at 01:58h in Feelings, Love, milestones, Parenting, Time 2 Comments

[caption id="attachment_590" align="alignright" width="230"] Kid Henry[/caption] Tonight Henry fell asleep in my arms, nursing before bed in the rocking chair in his bedroom. There's nothing unusual about that. It happens most every night. But tonight. Tonight I looked down at my sleeping baby in my arms and...

16 Dec Deliberately, with love

Posted at 16:06h in Family, Feelings, Love, Parenting 0 Comments

A friend posted on Facebook asking what her friends did today to make the world a better place. I wrote: "Made Christmas cookies with my family. Raising Henry to be a loving, empathetic, soulful creature who is secure, generous, kind, confident and self-reliant is my...

14 May Holding hands in the sunshine

Posted at 18:08h in Family, Love, Parenting 1 Comment

Peanut and I had a lovely Mother's Day with both of his grandmothers, my Nonnie and Auntie Jo (who is herself a grandmother-to-be)! We went to the buffet at South Station and I ate too many cream puffs and chocolate-dipped strawberries. This morning I had...