Posts Tagged ‘mothers’

Tenderness and Terror: Surviving Parenthood

My younger brother was married last week in a very hippie hipster affair.  I haven’t been surrounded by that many childless twenty and thirty-year-olds since I myself was childless and way hipper.  And I thought I was still cool until I opened my mouth and started talking. It didn’t take me long to realize that […] Read more…

Let There Be One Good Thing

Yesterday I picked up my boys from elementary school early and took them directly to Dairy Queen where I allowed them to order medium-sized ice creams instead of the usual small.  I decreed it an official dessert before dinner day.   Friends came over last night with their child and we spent the evening baking, decorating cupcakes, and watching […] Read more…