Last night, I saw Time

Last night, I saw Time slipping in and out my window. My son was sleeping next to me and the sweet inhalation of his breath swirled around the room with the whirr of the ceiling fan until I almost thought I was or maybe could be asleep there beside him, stretched tight or curled loose [...]

Just A Moment

We played hard all day, planting flowers, kicking soccer balls, riding bikes and racing cars. We painted pictures, drew with chalk, built cities out of colored blocks and then bowled them over with a small Avengers ball.   Lunch was had on a blanket across the floor, picnic style, as we watched his favorite cartoon and [...]

Some Days…

Last night I had a babysitter so I could go out to dinner with a friend.  When I got home at 8:40, J was nearly but not-quite asleep and he bounded awake like he hadn’t seen me in days instead of hours.  It took more than an hour for him to wind down and more [...]

May There Always Be More

Last night, just before bed, my three year old son told me he was going to teach me a prayer.  I was obviously game, so he started out slowly, saying one sentence then having me repeat it. “Dear God,” he clasped his hands together and closed his eyes, lifting his lashes to see if I [...]

Boys Can Love Pink

Several days ago, J came home from school and went on a walk with me.  As we turned a corner in our neighborhood, there was a pink bicycle lying in someone’s yard.  He looked at it for a moment and said “That’s a girl’s bike,” in a very matter of fact sort of way. “Why [...]

Everything.

My phone went off at 6:30 this morning, belting out the new “alarm tone” meant to encourage and entice me to face my days with a smile… “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor.  I lay in bed for the length of a good snooze button, flipping through emails that arrived over night and quickly scanning [...]

Blessed.

Sometimes, someone does something so big that it overwhelms you with the sheer kindness of it all.  Sometimes, when you’re at your lowest, someone comes along and lifts you up so high that you’d swear your forehead kisses the clouds as they pass.  Sometimes someone does something so beautiful that you are faced with the [...]

Being A Single Parent Means Picking Your Battles… and your Roles

One of the hardest parts of becoming a single mother, for me, is the desire to be everything for my child. I desperately want him to have the childhood I had… the baking cookies, the team sports, the music lessons. I don’t want him to have moments when he thinks “Man, I could do that [...]

No Really, It’s Still Gross.

Before I had kids, I always laughed at the depiction of the “typical” overbearing mother, licking her own finger and using it as a scrub brush for the children’s faces.  It was gross and disgusting and un-hygienic and CLEARLY no real mother would actually do anything that sick, right? I swore it was something I’d [...]

Boys Will Be Boys

One of the things I wanted to be sure to do with J while he was young was instill in him the importance of believing in something bigger than him.  As a result, once we got back to Macon, we started going to Wednesday night supper at a local church.  Two of his friends from [...]