I poured the children identical, I mean identical, glasses of milk this morning. I did this without thinking, upending a jug of milk, emptying it, easily and swiftly in two glasses, half and half. I looked down to see how precisely I had done this and a little pride ran through me. I knew, given […]
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Letter to my boys about Grandma
I wrote this May 20, 2010 to my boys, and just came across it again. I’ll share it here….. Dear Kendall and Nelson, Today it was pouring rain, 46 degrees out and bitter. It had rained all morning and yesterday we had Great Grandma Vera’s funeral service/burial. It’s terrible to say burial and I hope […]
Three birthdays, evenly distributed
It’s been a month of birthdays around here for my boys. Three birthdays in the one little month of October. And due to a complicated formula involving Physics, Mathematics and Psych, this has resulted in their mother (me) providing the two boys with TRIPLE the normal birthday haul. Our youngest, Nelson, has the first birthday […]
Save it for the fall Moms!
“Save it for the fall” has become our mantra around here. My sister’s two children and my two children, all four of them, will be in school this fall. For the first time in our lives, we will have the house to ourselves to work on GTWoman Magazine. While we admit this is a bittersweet […]