It doesn’t make sense not to learn about. If you’ve been holding back from learning about routine infant circumcision (RIC), I encourage to ask yourself why and remind you that there is absolutely no shame in education. Continue reading
It’s been 122 Fridays since I last held my littlest love. I count because I can’t help it. I count because he’s my son and he’ll never stop mattering to me. I count because numbers are something real that makes sense to me, unlike his absence, unlike SUDC. Patrick should be three and a half … Continue reading
There was a post going around a while ago on how having or being a stay at home parent isn’t a luxury and I agree: the word you’re looking for there is privilege. To even be a part of that conversation presumes the privilege of having a two-parent household to begin with. Having a spouse … Continue reading
In the wee hours of the morning the Peter Pan time between asleep and awake your eyes filled with tears and you cried to me for reasons I’ll never know if you were too hot or too cold had something amiss inside or something on your mind eyes that wouldn’t close change your position change … Continue reading
Since the moment you were born you cried for me day by day and I came to soothe you heart and breasts full frenzied or calm elated or defeated alert or exhausted or somewhere in between tenderly rocking milk freely flowing running my fingers through your hair as you lay quietly warm bath of oxytocin becoming one … Continue reading
“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.” – Brene Brown Authenticity is one of the things I’ve been trying to put my finger on behind … Continue reading
It’s Peggy O’Mara’s birthday today! As the former editor and publisher of Mothering Magazine, she gave creative, gentle, natural and informed parenting a place in mainstream media before we had Facebook groups, Google hangouts and Pinterest to help network and spread information and ideas- and connections, too. Mothering was the only magazine I’ve ever opened … Continue reading
Gosh, I’m so picky! No wonder I haven’t been writing. I’ve had to adjust the lighting, change the music, redirect the angle of the blinds, get more coffee, check on the kids, check my email, use the bathroom, get MORE coffee, adjust my chair, put my hair back up, and finally just sit the hell … Continue reading
I’ve gone quiet again, both here and within myself, instead of keeping in touch like I’ve meant to. There are a lot of changes happening for me in the background and I’m still not quite sure how to process it all… I keep forgetting somehow that writing is a process for me and that I … Continue reading
I realized that I haven’t written for a while here… it was during my reflective pause in writing that my sweet boy Patrick, just days after taking his first steps, crossed the Rainbow Bridge in his dreams and slipped gently into the stars at the age of 14 months & four days. I had never heard of Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC) before that night and had been fairly convinced SIDS was for babies 3 months and under who had suffocated. I learned differently two weeks ago, and my life is forever changed. Continue reading
