Long Days, Short Seasons
Musings of a Mother
#kids topic
August 11, 2023
Mission: Impossible Mom Style
Summer has arrived, dethawing my frozen, winterized body. We have waited all year long for this. To get the kids outside without snow, to enjoy play dates at the river and afternoons by the pool. The luxury of long, balmy evenings when it feels like time pauses. The warm air caresses my pale skin like a hug as the clouds dance with color overhead and sun just doesn’t feel like leaving the sky.
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June 9, 2023
An Unexpected Love For Hand-Me-Downs
I dropped an entire garbage bag stuffed full of used baby clothes off at a girlfriend’s house this afternoon. As I drove to her house, car overburdened with three kids stuffed into the back of my Honda Accord, I was taken aback by a sadness which crept inside me the closer I got to her house. It was just used clothes. Clothes that had filled my closets and cluttered my house and were no longer useful as my girls had grown out of all of them.
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