Tonight, I find myself having some pretty vivid flashbacks.  Matthew is downstairs building her big girl bicycle; shiny, pink, and complete with streamers on the handlebars, a basket and of course, a bell.  It will surely be the hit of the day tomorrow.  After returning from the store for a last minute procurement of balloons, I find myself compelled to write.   Roughly four years ago yesterday, I went for a pedicure.  As a first time soon-to-be-mom, I felt it important to look my best for childbirth, as if anyone in the delivery room would care!  […]

As any of my loyal readers know, the name of this project stemmed from the way I would put Clara to bed long before Eloise was even born.  She is, and always has been, a lover of stars.  When Clara was learning to talk, one of the first things she zeroed in on was the concept of stars.  She would look up into the night sky, point, and say “Stars!” And so, it came to be that each night when tucking her in, I would tell her that I love her more than all the […]

Summer 2020 will likely go down in the history books as one that mothers everywhere never want to think about again. Where there should be princess camps and trips to the zoo, we have been left with socially distanced gatherings at best, and a couple of extra freeze pops every day to keep the kids quiet. Some days, I’m tremendously grateful that I have young children; I know they will never remember living through this pandemic, and with the exception of Clara’s vague understanding of the CoronaVirus being why we can’t see her cousins, this […]