I just got back from a school drop off from hell. Well, it isn’t the worst that I have ever had, but with the weight of the week and month laying heavy on my mind, I didn’t handle it well. The summer school session has hit and that means a transition of teachers and classmates.…
At this point I’m starting to wonder if I’m cut out to be a Dance Mom. Most others were looking so poised and their little ballerinas looked like that were in a magazine. I’m pretty sure mine actually had dirt on her face and under her nails and I couldn’t tell if she showed up to dance pictures or to hang with Bear Grilles in the wilderness.
We just got home from a day at Sebastian Inlet State Park in Melbourne Beach, FL. My in-laws live in Rockledge, FL and drove past the inlet recently on the way to Vero Beach. The park caught their eye as a place that might be nice to take the kids (age 4) because the inlet…
The week leading up to Reid’s tonsillectomy surgery was finally upon us and it had been a year and a half in the making. The weeks leading up to the surgery seemed so slow and were full of no sleep and escalating emotions. When I say that Reid was having a hard time with his…
A few years back, I was on a work trip with a nurse practitioner. I was seemingly venting into my larger glass of sangria all of my parenting woes. I shared about the emotional and sleep challenges I was having with Reid, who was affectionately nicknamed Grumpus starting at birth. He has always been the…
November 17, 2015 Dear Baby Girl and Baby Boy, As I sit here, 4 days before you turn one, I can’t believe how far we’ve come. The time managed to standstill and fly by all at the same time. This past year, year and 9 months if you could your time baking, have been the…
