I'm fairly certain that when I am very old, lying on my deathbed in some delirious state, tonight will be a memory I linger on. And I will know that I lived a rich, full life. We didn't have Valentine's Day plans. Usually we try to...
It felt like months went by without leaving the house, and only once had I ever tried it solo with both my three-year-old son, Henry, and my three-month-old, Daniel, and, well. You know how that went. This particular day, my husband Cory was going to work the evening shift...
I had some feedback on my superwoman post that hinted about Henry's days being too much for a two-year-old. So today, a "Mommy-Henry" Sunday (Cory's working 12-hour day shifts this weekend), we just stayed in and hung out. It reminded me of why I like to...
Tonight Henry hammed it up for the Shirt Factory Tenants Association holiday party. He served himself a carrot with hummus from the table and then got me one and dipped one for Dolores Thomson. He pulled up a chair to sit at the table and eat...
6:00 a.m. Woke up and had coffee in bed thanks to my wonderful husband. Henry was the perfect boy and read books in his crib while I showered and got ready in my businesslady outfit and darker lipstick than made sense in daylight. Then I brought...
I had something like a panic attack in the grocery store just now. Let me back up. I went to the Glens Falls Farmer's Market on Saturday for, embarrassingly, the first time in a long while. My problem is that I can't get my act together early...
I had read about how background reading aloud is good for a child's developing brain in the opposite way that background TV is bad for him, so I picked a wordy book off the shelf to read to Henry today while he played on the...