At the beginning of February, there was a week when it seemed nearly all the small children we knew were sick. Fevers, coughs, throwing up… the symptoms varied by child, but it seemed like everyone got hit at once. Starting Monday morning, our Caitlyn (2) had been spiking high fevers (up to 103.8) around the clock. She was just miserable. […]
Curiosity and Enthusiasm – Two of Caitlyn’s Gifts
This girl is two and it’s a wonderful, exciting, never-a-dull-moment, try-not-to-freak-out, increase-her-mama’s-patience kind of age. “What’s this?” she asked as she knocked the #10 can of tomatoes off the counter: It splattered onto every surface of our kitchen and extended onto the carpet as well. “Are we having pumpkin butter on our bread?” she asked as she stood on a […]
My Mothering Style
It occurred to me the other day when I was pumping gas that I’m a quirky mom. Maybe all mothers are… in their own ways? As soon as I got the nozzle where it needed to go, I started making silly faces through the car window and ducking down and popping up again, to the great delight of my children. […]