A few years ago, I sat on the bleachers at my son’s baseball game on a warm spring day. I had one of my 9 month-old twins in tow and as we sat down, I recognized a friend from church. We both mothered many, and had always just had a bond that looked like waving […]
The day after Christmas we went away for two weeks to the Bahamas. Our neighbors have a house and a boat there, and our families always have fun together – the dads love to fish, the moms love to laugh, the kids love to play Among Us. Plus, 80% of both of our families have […]
The twins turn 3 this week and I can hardly believe it. They were little tiny explorers, all gums and chubby cheeks a second ago, weren’t they? They just started preschool, where an amazing army of trained educators will help them grow and I am so excited for them. And for me. Because I […]
Like the rest of the world, most of my goals took a beating this year. But ever since school ended and the glorious freedom of summer has enveloped us – complete with pools of golden light in the mornings and walks around our neighborhood bursting with summer flowers and lush greens – I have felt […]
When we first started out with this business of staying home/quarentining/living through a pandemic, I was talking with a friend who took her middle school son shopping. When he asked what toilet paper should he grab, she replied ‘any port in a storm.’ I still laugh at this image of them panic shopping, and this […]
For many people, this pandemic is loud and fast and devastating. They are working hard to save lives, or they are losing husbands or mothers overnight and facing the pain of their dying alone. Parents are being asked to do three jobs in the time it takes to do one, and financial catastrophe is deepening […]
Greetings from the land of quiet, of snow, of a beautiful frozen lake and toddlers that are eating Lucky Charms as we speak. We left the craziness of our home town in Portsmouth, NH and went north to our house in Maine, with gratitude for a Target that still has toilet paper and a conscious […]
Maybe because it’s winter and I’ve been watching too much TV, maybe because Michelle Williams shouted about how she needed to kill her baby to win her last award, or maybe because trying to watch a show with my 12-year-old daughter has ads for every kind of female empowerment message EXCEPT being a mother, I am […]
It’s been a month since my sister Maureen died at the young age of 41. She was 18 months younger than me, the seventh in our family of eight children so I can’t remember life without her. Even though we knew her death was coming it still feels like a shock. She had been hospitalized […]
Our twins will be two on Sunday, and it hasn’t escaped me that their birthday falls in the middle of Down syndrome awareness month. They were also born on the 100th Anniversary of the last Fatima apparition, and given my Marian Consecration in February of that year, my husband likes to say they are ‘Mary’s babies’. One of the […]