It was one of those accidents that gives every parent nightmares about head and neck injuries. It was also the best moment of his entire life.
Birth Order
Archie: Are we going to have another baby? Will it come from Aunt Meg?
Kevin: What?
Grammar Challenge: Yodish
This grammar challenge, inspired by Grammar Girl is for Star Wars
Forgiving ourselves
The story I carry includes death and birth, lives lost and lives saved, tears and laughter. It is incomplete if it has only the good mommy days. I carry it all, broken pieces and whole, together.
Just trying to fit in.
In a pretend world of superhero babies who like to be tickled by swords, fights between Marvel Universe and DC Universe and the whole galaxy of Star Wars, sometimes I have a hard time fitting into my kids’ games. Today the boys invited me to join them- I had heard many mentions of “evil underworld [...]
Conversations of Olympian Proportions
Assimilation at its best. Piaget would love watching my boys make meaning.
Aliens and Father’s Day
The boys worked up a “screenplay” for Father’s day this year. Their accounts differ somewhat. Here’s Archie’s: Well, We’re in Power Ranger suits. We have them hooked on to grappnals right on my tummy. Our mom was chasing I jumped on her back. Carter got knocked out. When Carter wakes up, I jump on Mom’s [...]