The picture above touches my heart. The mother is loving and protective, the baby contented and trusting. I held my daughter at this age with the same wonder and delight. I saw a bright future: a happy little girl, a teen, a college student, a young woman, a bride in […]
With five active kids spanning nine years, we kept plenty of Band-Aids on hand…big ones for knees, round ones for small scrapes and of course brightly colored Sesame Street and Winnie the Pooh strips in the early years. There is something satisfying as a mom to hug a sobbing child after a fall, clean […]
Every week I go babysit my daughter’s baby for half a day at the family home of the birth father so that he can go to class, study or just have some time off from being a single dad. The young man’s mother is normally the one who comes to relieve me of babysitting […]
Years ago, after my youngest son was born and while still in the hospital, I visited my friend in the same maternity ward who had delivered a baby girl the day after me. I was happy for her that the delivery was straightforward and the baby was as healthy as could be.
Several […]
