Thanks to fair Winnie, whose comment on my last entry sent me to the dollar store, I put together the much-talked-about bumblebee, butterfly and flower costumes for a whopping $7.
We had the flower headband already. The wings were all $1. I bent Callista’s […]
Toby, Eleanor and Callista, I’m writing this blog entry for you, for your future days in therapy, so you can hold up a calendar with Oct. 31, 2013, circled in red marker to pinpoint when your mother started breaking your hearts.
(If we’re honest, it was probably when I decided triage parenting – neediest one […]
I hope we all work to prevent bullying on a daily basis, but October’s distinction as National Bullying Prevention Month gives us a neat little platform on which to work with each other.
I’ve already written twice about “Bully,” a documentary I think everyone needs to watch. You’ll see kids who are incessantly […]
Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day. I rarely know what the date is anymore, so it took me by surprise when I saw the Wave of Light and other remembrance notes start pouring in on my Twitter and Instagram feeds before bed last night.
I double checked the calendar, and, sure enough, it’s […]
We went camping this weekend. In a tent. In the woods. In another state. In the mountains. Everyone told me I was crazy for taking my almost-3-year-old triplets on a real camping trip. I told them it’d be fine. It’d be fun. They’d do great.
They were wrong. I was right. It was fun. They […]
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