Christmas
When She’s Halfway to 20
We are sitting side by side at our beat up kitchen table. Yes, the table where I fed her her first bits of solid food, food she sucked back so quickly because this first time Mom didn’t realize she shouldn’t…
Coming Home
I stumbled, cross eyed out of the bedroom to find Chad and his brother Doug sitting at the kitchen table brewing a cup of tea. It might have been 8 o’clock but it was Christmas week and it’s hard enough…
When The Tree Lights Sing
Our house has been loud with love these last few weeks of December, but tonight, as the little’s sleep after a wild day of excitement, the quiet of the tree calls to me. I’ve felt it drawing me now for…
all in a Christmas bulb
New Years Eve is tomorrow, the kids are finally asleep, Christmas lights twinkling and I’m feeling reflective. I love to be reflective -odd duck that I am- perhaps it’s my newly acquired old age, my old soul, or just the…
Why I do my Christmas Shopping online
Yesterday, 11am get to mall discover poop explosion and no diaper bag . Purchase diapers, wipes and deodorant. Kids are starving, buy lunch. Pass free kittens outside walmart 4 year old sobs incessantly wanting a kitten. Apparently she can read the word free.…
