On the bathroom counter — right where he knew I’d come first thing this morning — Kevin left me a sweet, sweet Mother’s Day card. It lay atop a photo album open to a picture of me, in a blue hospital gown, holding a swaddled still-newborn Atticus with a little, curly-haired toddler Lucas by my [...]
It was Halloween 2006. Atticus was just over a month old, and we were at my parents’ house, showing off Lucas’ costume. He would’ve been about 2-1/2. Awww!!
The dyeing step of the Easter egg process is much more fun for everyone (but more so especially those of us who don’t have to clean up afterward). We used a water, vinegar, and food dye mixture. It didn’t make for as vivid eggs as we’re used to, maybe, and they’re a bit splotchy, but [...]
The Easter Egg is a process. Today, we boil; tomorrow, we dye. This feels like it’s going somewhere poem-like with some word play on the boiling and dyeing, a big metaphor for life or something. So I’ll stop here and spare us all… ~*~ What I wish I could’ve posted tonight is a picture of [...]
Getting Valentine’s Day cards ready for Monday, Lucas helped check off the names of the kids in his class until he got check-happy and checked half the class before making their cards. That’s when I stepped in and marked with a line each one we’d already made as he called out the names. It was [...]
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