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Month 38, Version 2.0
Dear Miles, I have learned from a very young age via the gripes from my mother when my dad would become sick and I learned first hand when I started dating your father way back in the day, that you don’t want to be around a man when he gets sick. I’m not talking about…
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Month 62
Dear Olivia, I knew raising a daughter would not come easy for me. In fact, the idea of having a daughter scared me so much that I decided to keep the sex a surprise when I learned I was pregnant. I was not an overly feminine girl nor could I easily relate to other girls.…
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Month 37, Version 2.0
Dear Miles, Last month, I discovered the parenting magic that is “Screamfree Parenting” and I’ve tried exceptionally hard to follow the calm, level-headed, responsible parenting guidelines that the book tries to demonstrate. I feel like we really gained some traction the first couple weeks and in fact, I was even given a compliment by a…
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Month 61
Dear Olivia, This post comes to you from a much calmer version of myself and no, I’m not being sarcastic. Thank you for knowing me so well though. I can’t say this was entirely true a couple weeks back when a very tired and anxious version of myself walked in to your pediatricians office with…
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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…