Almost spring
Do you feel it? The days are growing longer. There is more mud and less snow; but still snow. Spring, almost. The boys are drawn to the puddles; to wherever the ice is thin. We kick chunks of snow along the road and stand with our heads thrown back watching the starlings and grackles lift [...]
Two + all the love in the universe
You were the beginning of the rest of my life, little one. You arrived, wide eyed, with a certain calm that has stayed with you. You came with smiles already fluttering; who, and at two months old you veritably beamed. You came to this world loving. It’s your thing, it’s what makes you, you. It’s [...]
Breathing room
What You are like at 6:
All legs and knobby knees, always outgrowing your jeans. Mood swings: sweeter than sugar, to darker than a storm filled sky and back in the span of an hour. Messes: a thousand snippets of paper strewn like snow; marbles always rolling off beneath the couches; legos wherever I step; erector set nuts and bolts never [...]
Dreaming in the morning
I feel like I am a feather or a tumble weed; something blown about across the vast space of the night. The morning comes too soon. I haven’t dreamed enough. I wake, go through the motions: coffee, eggs + toast, say goodbye to T and the big boy (whose birthday is tomorrow!) and pull out [...]
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