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Family Time

14 Oct

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

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...

09 Oct

Posted at 16:01h in Discipline, Family Time, Parenting

I envy the calm, lilting tone I hear some mothers use. “No thank you!” they recite, gently guiding their child away from climbing the radiator around the perimeter of the children's room at the library that all kids gravitate toward. “We'll get them at the patch...

22 Aug

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

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...

14 Aug

Posted at 20:35h in Art, Family Time, Parenting

I often think to myself, “One of these days I'm going to look up some charming ideas on Pinterest and spend the day with my son Henry making bumblebees out of pool noodles and painting every surface in the house with chalkboard paint.” I place...

09 Aug

Posted at 16:10h in Parenting

We have some outrageous family lore on both sides of my family tree, like how my uncle Johnny ended up in the upstairs apartment painting the walls for the tenants when he was three, and how my dad at 18 months toddled across the railroad...