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Mommyhood

To All Moms on Mother’s Day

May 13, 2012

Today, however you celebrate (or don’t), I hope you take a minute to yourself. I hope you take a deep breath, and exhale, and know one thing: You are more than the extra labels that you may be painted with. Take away the words working, stay-at-home, breastfeeding, formula feeding, attachment parenting, helicopter, free range, adoptive, [...]

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You, My Boy, Are More

March 28, 2012

This is how I see you, most of the time. Laughing, smiling, and a blur from wiggling and moving. Some days I know I focus too much on the hard parts. Especially here. This place is where I work through my own feelings of failing, of my own feelings that I’m not enough for you, [...]

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The Right Kid for the Right Parent

March 20, 2012

Parenting isn’t what I thought it would be. Maybe because I was blessed with a child I wasn’t expecting, or maybe through a failure of imagination, or maybe (probably) because there is no way to really grasp what parenting will be like before you’re in it, my parenting experience has been thrilling and terrifying and [...]

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Exhale and Laugh

March 16, 2012

The warmth on my face and shoulders may have come from the sun, but the warmth in my lap was better. A little boy wrapped in a towel, shivering from the hour he had spent flinging himself with joyful abandon into the not-yet-warm-enough-for-swimming Pacific, warming my legs even through the cool towel. The weight of [...]

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In the Swoop of His Shoulder

March 1, 2012

In the swoop of his shoulder, I see a glimpse into the future. In the flourish of his gesture, I am transported to a distant, but too close, time. In the way he cocks his head, in the angle of his leg crossed at the knee, in the way he sometimes sits, and even, occasionally, [...]

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