Tag: raising kids

Why Newborns Are Terrifying

As soon as we opened the door, she became the most fragile thing in our home.

When you truly accept anything as a possibility then everything is perfect.

This wasn’t home and no other parents were doing it. That’s what makes it “embarrassing.”

There are some days when I am in awe of his nerve.

I spent years in the babyhood trenches. I have the scars, words, and formula stains to prove it.

He’ll get it. I know he will. He’s done it before. He’ll do it again.

What do you do, after that entire expensive day of magic, when they scream out “shut your mouth” in a crowded Macaroni Grill?

For a kid, those insults are worse than mean, they’re true.

It was the day that she nearly made me laugh so hard that coffee came out of my nose

I don’t want to live my life angry and, just because I have kids, it doesn’t mean I have to.