What happens when Mama tries to multitask,  January 2014 Someone wise once said the only constant is change, and never is that truer than when you have small children. Emry was the sweetest, mellowest baby. He would just put himself to sleep in his bouncy chair if he was tired. But man, is he a rascally 3.5-year-old! He’s great at entertaining himself. He will play with Legos for hours in a day, making up elaborate stories in which Zane the white ninja changes identities with Spiderman. But then he will start to get ... more

Batman and his trusty companion, February 2013 When I am gray-haired and my children are grown, and I am sitting by a fire reminscing, will I remember the way that Emry poops four times a day and always when we're running late leaving the house? And how Elan never does what I say until the 4th time I say it, with frustration? Or will I think about how they'd put their little hands in mine, how Elan would actually never want to be out of my presence in the house, ... more