Driving home tonight with Miss Maeve in the backseat and my mother at my right in the passenger seat, I commented how quiet Maeve had recently become.
Glancing down at the clock, I reasoned that since it was just about her bedtime, and we’d just spent a good handful of hours out and about doing some good ol’ [...]
Two years ago today you came into the world.
The next morning I learned of you through the most memorable phone call of my life.
Twenty-four hours later I touched you for the first time, and held you in my arms, your little newborn body, long toes and round rosy lips making an impression on my soul so large [...]
Love is …
Maeve, in spiral-curled pigtails and “Daaahling, Let’s Do Lunch” sunglasses.
Love is …
Me, hurrying barefoot across her MegaBlocks (ouch!) to grab the camera.
Love is …
Asking “Who’s a cute girl?” and actually catching
her hand-to-cheek response in photographic form.
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But most of all, Love is …
Believing I’m at least partly responsible for that glimmer in her eyes.
Happy Love Thursday, everyone!
For [...]
So today for Love Thursday I was planning to post a picture of how my dear Maevey Gravy looked as she went to her little school yesterday morning.
But the ‘conversation’ she and I had this morning as I changed her diaper trumped even the most wonderful of images, which I’ll share another time. I’m letting her [...]
On Loving A Seven-Month-Old Maeve
(Written one year ago in my journal)
Because her big toothless smile greets me each morning.
Because when I least expect it, her hair springs a subtle surprise curl.
Because she places her little paws on my cheeks and watches me, face-to-face.
Because she can wear a pink beret like no one else I know.
Because her [...]
The bad news?
My day began bright and early, in a dentist chair, white knuckles gripping plastic-clad armrests, while sounds of drilling reverberating relentlessly inside my head. An hour and a half later, I left the dental office with a small envelope of gargantuan pills to ease the arrival of forecasted pain and discomfort.
I arrived at my [...]
Me with Taylor, left, and Maeve, right. Fall 2006
Let’s talk curls. Kids’ curls.
Maeve’s got soft, sweet curls. Spiral curls bursting with personality. Lovable little twists of delight.
Yet this child’s ringlets have been the impetus for many a Google search on my part in a frantic attempt to learn how to care for hair that is so [...]
