He’s six and a half, and as we watched Harry wave goodbye to Hagrid at the end of Sorcerer’s Stone, he began to cry. “You know, sometimes I feel really […]

Charlie found the tiny chewed up head of a toy horse figure on the counter today, the victim of our occasionally mouthy pit bull. Charlie: Oh no! Neville ate my […]

Originally posted Feb 16, 2016 (Patton was 4y3m) In Which I Must Choose to Laugh or Cry: Patton and I laying in bed at night. To help you understand this […]

Patton is six years old.  He has grown tall and lanky, and I’m so pissed that I didn’t start marking the wall with his height sooner.  I spend days in […]

Tim: Charlie, where are your underwear? Charlie: I took them off. They were too fuzzy. The end.

The only ones I really have at the end of the day are that I didn’t have time to sit down and freeze all of you in time, in words, […]

Dear Anna, Just so we’re clear, I’m the same mother who forgot to get my third kid anything for his first birthday. I stood in the backyard once, within arm’s […]

Charlie: These are my ears. *Points to ears* Me: Yes they are. Charlie: My tummy. *Holds fat rolls* Me: Yes. Charlie: This is my vulva. Me: That’s right. Charlie. S’not […]

Everything went so fast.  Everything.  From the beginning, my pregnancy ran ahead without waiting for me to catch up.  I was surprised to be pregnant, and at my first ultrasound […]

I used to think my mother made up for the volatility of my upbringing by letting me stay up late at night to watch Dragnet. We sat on the couch […]