Convergence Insufficiency
Today my daughter had an eye appointment that I made almost three months ago. It was with an ophthalmologist who specializes in diagnosing and treating converge...
Category: Parenting & Family
Week Two
We’re almost done with our son’s second week of daycare. Things are getting better. He doesn’t cry as hard, or long, when my daughter and I le...
Day One is Done
Well, we made it. Drop off was kind of a shit show. We got there right as another kid who started last week was being dropped off. He was very upset and cried f...
Big Transition #2
Tomorrow my son starts preschool. He’s been with my in-laws since I left maternity leave almost two years ago. For the first year and a half I picked him ...
Two
My son turns two today. I don’t write much about parenting him. I certainly don’t write as much about parenting him as I write about parenting my da...
Relentless
I’ve been back at work for over four weeks and the pace of things feels… relentless. Relentless. It’s the perfect word. From the minute I wake...
The Electronic Babysitter
I’d love to sit here all proud of the fact that the TV is almost never on in our house, but I honestly can’t take much credit. It was my husband who...
Dissent
I needed an extra hour at work yesterday so I asked my in-laws meet me at my daughter’s after care. Then I forgot my phone at work and was really late, so...
Struggling
Sorry for the absence from this space. Things have been hectic and at the end of the day I just don’t feel like writing much. The reality is I’m kin...
Home
I can’t remember the last time I was this excited to bathed and ready to fall into my newly made bed, alone. No one else in the room, not even my husband....