The First Time Feels Like the Earth Skips a Beat

  The first glimmer comes out of nowhere. I knew it would come, and yet I didn’t expect it so soon. It comes at the tail end of a Saturday lunch, as my husband and I look at the dirty …

Tuesday of the Freak-Outs: Or How Toddlers Can Be Emotionally Abusive

It occurred to me yesterday that if my children were my friends, I would probably have to break up with them. Not because I do not love them boundlessly. My love for them is like the universe: infinite and ever …

Hard

Hard as in the hardwood floors always coated with Cheerio crumbs and unrecognizable dried sticky stuff (because toddlers). Hard as in waking three times in one night because your kid’s lightweight immune system has yet to receive its boxing gloves …