Baby Girl

The first bite

November 22, 2011

Chessa got bit at day care last week.  Even writing that makes my heart hurt a little.  Knowing that she was hurt by another child and I wasn’t there to stop it or wipe her tears.  But at the same time I’m relieved that she wasn’t the two-year-old doing the biting.  She was, however, doing [...]

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two

September 30, 2011

Happy birthday, sweet girl! Sometimes I try to imagine the you that you will be when you read these letters.  Will you be twelve, knowing everything and roll your eyes at my emotion? Will you be seventeen and try to use my loving words here to convince me to buy you a car? Or will [...]

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Two years, 40 weeks and six days

September 29, 2011

“It’s your last day of being one, ” I teased her.  “Tomorrow you’ll be TWO!” “TWO! Tomorrow Chessa happy birfday!” she answered back, eyes gleaming.  I kept dressing her.  Pants go on like this, shirt over your head, give me your arms…  And then, she looked up at me and said, “Chessa still young, Mommy.”  [...]

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Two minus one month

August 30, 2011

Dear Chessa, This is the last time I can (without appearing as an over-protective, doesn’t-want-her-child-to-grow-up mother) celebrate your birth on the 30th of a month that’s not September. Also, it means when people ask how old you are I have to start using years instead of months.  Because one month from today you will be [...]

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May these children teach me well

August 11, 2011

I want to teach my children that laughter is good for the soul.  That it frees you from a bad mood, a sad day or an angry moment.  I want them to know how to give into a funny moment with a whole hearted belly laugh followed by a snort. Instead, Chessa is finding her [...]

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So this is what having two kids is like?

June 22, 2011

Sometimes I come here after super weekends full of funny things that the kids did, milestones crossed off or days of moments I’m trying to commit to memory.  This time, I’m coming here after a weekend full of a cranky and sick toddler and a baby who still prefers catnaps to the real thing. It [...]

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This is why I SHOULD blog

June 2, 2011

I don’t blog to be famous.  I don’t blog to be rich.  I don’t blog to stir up controversy and get everyone’s panties in a bunch over various parenting choices.  I don’t blog to make friends (although I have and it’s the best perk of this gig.  hands down.)  I blog because I knew I [...]

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I’m not ready for this next milestone

May 30, 2011

I started quasi potty training Chessa last week.  Sort of.  Not really.  Maybe. For the past few days, every time I changed her she would look at me and say “POT-TEE” or “POT-TEE TWAIN”.  I kept brushing it off because I didn’t think she was ready.  Not more than two months ago when I was [...]

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Here’s hoping it’s a really long summer

May 26, 2011

I know football season seems like it’s a long time away.  Hell, it’s not quite Memorial Day.  But this night, the one I just had with my adorable and wonderful children, is the kind of night that makes me dread August and the return of helmets and shoulder pads, x’s and o’s, film and scouting and at least [...]

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our weekend in pictures

May 23, 2011

I love weekends so much more when I’m working.  That’s obvious, I guess?  When I was on maternity leave any given Tuesday could have been a Saturday or Sunday.  Other than Craig being home there was nothing to tell them apart.  But now? Now, I start looking forward to the weekend somewhere around 8:37 on [...]

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