Posted in Insight, Mid-Life Mama, Round Two, Teens, Twenty-something, What's Next? (18 & beyond)

taking credit

Sometimes when my sons share all the things that interest them and all the things they want to do with their lives, I think to myself:

Damn, my breastmilk was good.

 

Posted in Mother to Crone, Nuts & Bolts, Round Two, Teens, What's Next? (18 & beyond)

aidan’s eyes

We’ve come to rely on Aidan’s eyes.
How will we manage when he’s gone…

#chinhairs #ticks #smallprint #technology #humor #compassion

Posted in College, Nuts & Bolts, Twenty-something, What's Next? (18 & beyond)

Spring Break

At 22, he’ll still fight me over meal contributions (dishes & the like), and it is this ordinariness in which I most delight–this sharing of home–particularly now that he resides elsewhere; a fact my heart refuses to assimilate.