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Month 36, Version 2.0
Dear Miles, We did it, we made it to 3 years old. I emphasize “we” because I really wasn’t sure whether both of us would make it out alive after the last year we experienced together. With all due respect, we should very much be celebrating three years of you but as a parent, I’ve…
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Month 60
Dear Olivia, Five years old. I sat down to write this post to you earlier but I really needed some time to let this marinate a bit. Five doesn’t seem like a big milestone in the grand scheme of things; it’s no 16 or 21 but it’s a huge transition from baby to big kid.…
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Month 35, Version 2.0
Dear Miles, I regret my decision a little bit about not sending you to school this year. I was so worried given your speech issues and your fly-off-the-handle personality that I was worried that if I started you in school too early, that you wouldn’t necessarily get off on the right foot and thus screw…
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Month 59
Dear Olivia, You have just completed your first week at your new preschool and as much as I was worried about transitioning you to a new school, you once again proved that I was being a ball of anxiety for nothing. You were fine – no tear-filled goodbyes or requests to stay home from school.…
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Month 33 & 34, Version 2.0
Dear Miles, I would like to start this post off with an apology. You have had quite a few spills and bumps over the course of your life and it happens so often that many times, I typically just shrug it off as another occurrence. I will be the first to admit that I need…
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Month 57 and 58
Dear Olivia, There will be moments in life where you will feel like life is vomiting on you. No matter how much you try to bob and weave, the crap will always find you. The last few weeks have been difficult – not in the disastrous way of a death or anything but just little…
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Month 32, Version 2.0
Dear Miles, I used to think that once a person became a parent, they somehow became part of this secret society. A network of people; fellow parents who had your back in a time of need because let’s face it, parenting is anything but easy. Parenting is a battle and kids have a way of…
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Month 56
Dear Olivia, I’ve only been in the parenting business for a little over four years now which I can honestly say that if this were a nine-to-five gig, I would be putting in my two weeks notice as I type this. Not that I don’t love being a parent, I’m just a person who doesn’t…
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Month 31, Version 2.0
Dear Miles, I have always been concerned with your delayed speech but there was also a little part of me that was like, why rush? You will learn to talk and when you do, you won’t shut up. I remember specifically with Olivia sharing these same sentiments. I remember wanting for her to speak and…