Posts from ‘April, 2009’

Sometimes I forget just how ripe and absorbent the toddler brain is until my son who is now nearly 3 years old reminds me by wowing us with his superb memory and absorbed knowledge. Time and time again, Jacob will prove to me that sometimes when we think he is not really listening to us….he [...]

Jacob was a lover of tummy time from a young age which I think had a lot to do with his time spent holed up in one of those N.I.C.U. incubators.  I remember when we’d visit him and I’d say to the nurses “why is he on his belly, aren’t babies supposed to sleep on [...]

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven:” It’s after 10 pm and I’m sitting here breaking all the rules about bedtime that exist in our house because I’m having one of those days where I want to breathe in every ounce of energy that my children give out…..taking [...]

On the day that she turned 3 Months old, Violet rolled over from her tummy to her back for the first time. I caught it by accident really…she had been asleep on her belly in her bassinet for an hour, maybe two, and from my chair I saw the familiar shaking motion that generally alerts [...]

It never ceases to amaze me how full of surprises, enchanting, exciting, and DECEIVING being a mother can be. When you have a baby for the first time, everyone warns you about those pesky “terrible twos” and when your child hits two you brace yourself, armed with tactics and the tools you think you need [...]

To my sweet angel face, My darling Violet Grace….. You’re a whole big 3 months old today and gosh you’ve changed so much since that very first moment when we met back in January. I should probably start off this letter by apologizing for giving you a bad “rep” when you first came home from [...]

Jacob is sick. I have always hated when things in my life felt out of control and I never realized before I had children just how often I was going to feel that way. When my children get sick, it’s like something inside of me feels so broken for them and I feel this instinctual [...]

I spent an hour on the phone the other day talking to my co-worker and our boss, which if you know me well at all, means a lot because I’m just not a phone person. It was one of the first opportunities since Violet was born that I have had to really sit down and [...]

When you’ve loved one child only for so many years, you can’t possibly fathom loving another human being as much or as perfectly as you love the first, the one who gave you the gift of motherhood…. There’s just something about Violet, our little Diva, that is remarkable to me…something about her that makes being [...]

So there’s chocolate in my house and I can’t stand the thought of it hiding in cupboards and on top of the fridge like some form of ancient torture device. I never was a chocolate girl (my snack of choice was always something salty like potato chips) but when I was pregnant with Violet the [...]