It is a tale as old as time.
A rite of Spring.
Boy and his dad plant a garden to feed their family.
They tend the garden, hoeing and raking, weeding and fertilizing.
Boy delights in watering the garden.
It should be a beautiful memory, one with a happy ending.
Yet, like all good stories, this one has an anti-hero.
A villain even.
I’ll let you know how Caddyshack: Down With The Bunny goes….
I was rocking in the glider, cuddling the baby. My son was lounging in the infant bathtub, at my feet. The tub empty, was on the rug in the nursery where I had placed it to dry the day before. He was hiding from the late afternoon sun streaming through the windows. He had pulled…
I looked down at her. She met my glance, her eyes heavy. She was drifting off. With every rock of the chair, her eyes closed more. It was a blissful, peaceful moment. Serene. Or it would have been if her brother wasn’t squeezed in to the glider next to me. Talking. Constantly. “Mama, did you…
This is the next in my series The Essence of Now, a photograph-based series looking at what’s going on in our lives. Did you know you can catch raindrops as they fall off the leaves? She loves her Exercauser. Normally she chews on it because she’s teething. Her first tooth arrived last weekend. Derek Jeter…
The ache echoing through my upper body, weary from carrying them both, sometimes simultaneously. The constant throb in my elbow, tendonitis flaring from lugging a chubby baby in her car seat. The pressure of his arms, wrapped around my leg as I try to bustle through the house, holding me back, asking me to wait….
As we pushed through the door, I felt his arms wrap around my leg. Always. Even though he loves his school, even though he’s been going twice a week since September, he still grabs my leg when we enter the room. Once he’s in the room, he settles in quickly. But he stalls at that…
This is the third installment of my Essence of Now series, chronicling the little moments of our week. It rained this week. A lot. But the boy made the most of it. He danced in the rain and played in the grass. And the baby? She did baby things. Like sleeping. Actually she started getting…
My husband shared this story with me recently. I love it. He captures the kind of honest, real, little moment that makes life so special. I saved it, to share as part of Shell’s Pour Your Heart Out link up. Because, well, he just does. My son is nearly three. This is momentous for me,…
I am the Lorax. I speak for the Trees. –Dr. Seuss, The Lorax. A little over a year ago, I started this blog. I’m not sure what I envisioned when I hit publish on my first post. Of course, like every mommy blogger, I wanted to document my family’s journey. But it was more…
This is the second in my Essence of Now series, capturing the everyday moments of today. We’ve been very busy this week. We watched the landscape and garbage trucks. We went to soccer practice. We played outside. And the baby? She’s teething. Constantly. And her feet are awesome. What has…
