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’ [...]
It’s been four months since I went part-time at the newspaper. Since then, I’ve had two days each week at home with Maeve. My mindset is improved, my house a bit better organized and, most of all, my heart is so much happier. After all, it’s two days a week where Maeve and I take on [...]
Knowing this is likely the last year where Maeve will simply don whatever I choose to dress her in for Halloween, I thought I’d have some 1950s fun.
And frankly, I think it’s just dreamy! And nifty, too! (OK, so I’m not so super smooth with the ’50s jargon. Blame “Grease” and “Back to the Future.” 
To [...]
On our way to Arizona (and peacefully ‘enough’ — thanks for all those tips!)
First lollipop, happy airborne ears!
Arrival landscape
Finally! There he is! There he is! My dear nephew Dashiell!
Playground in the abstract
From funky metal flowers …
to real and funky fauna:
Impressive turquoise hardscape …
Reunited cousin heartscape!
Caught in the act: Butterfly awe
A girl and her giraffe
Happy hummingbird, elated [...]
Returned to the scene of the crime the other night, and actually had a wonderful dinner out with Thomas and Maeve. She was a delight, and since she’s recently had another verbal spurt, we were delighted to sit back and soak in her adorableness.
Our server’s phrase o’ the evening was “No problem.” So by the [...]
My friend’s end-of-summer party:
Food, friends, pony rides, magic, bounce house, face painting …
and an ice cream truck. In the driveway. Just for her guests.
And Maeve’s first kiddy tattoo.
(She keeps checking that her “fu-her-fly” is still there.)
Good times.
Can hardly sit still and don’t really know why that is, thoughts moving through my mind faster than I can make them into words for you here, I’m trying to figure out why that is but as soon as I think I have the answer I forget what I was trying to think of, isn’t it [...]
I was thinking recently about how, despite a comfortable home and all its stuff, there are just a few things inside it that actually have a deep, sentimental, in-the-gut connection for me. Things not necessarily of great financial value, but of utmost import personally and emotionally. Some bring me great happiness; others are bittersweet. Thought I’d share some of them [...]
It seems folks over at my agency haven’t tired of me yet as they’ve just published my latest column on open-adoption parenting in their newsletter and on their website.
If a look-see strikes your fancy, ride the fresh link that’s nestled nicely in my sidebar and head to Page 10 and 11. And if I’ve got [...]
So I recently abandoned some pre-parent feminist proclamations about not giving my future children toys that feed into stereotypical roles. A daughter wouldn’t be bathed in pink and frills and dolls and a son wouldn’t get a fishing pole and truck and baseball. They wouldn’t get these things, anyway, without some sort of counterbalance. So a daughter [...]
