Tag: children
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Back to school time
Today, we sent the little one off to her first day of kindergarten and the teen boy off to (gulp) high school. Although the little one clung to my hand in the hallway, as soon as we got to her classroom, she wanted us to be gone. I now understand why I broke my mother’s…
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Dinner table spirituality
We were eating dinner last night, and the following discussion took place, although I don’t recall what prompted it: Daughter: “God is everywhere.” Husband: “Where do you think He is right now?” Daughter: “Daddy, SHE is right here.” At 5 years old, she knows more about the true nature of God (and gender assumptions, apparently)…
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The green tree in your heart
Five years ago on Easter Sunday, I awoke early in the morning, sensing something was about to change. Soon after, I went into labor. While Christians everywhere celebrated the resurrection of Christ, I awaited the arrival of my daughter. She was born the next evening, but Easter and birth are now inextricably linked in my mind.…
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Our children, our memory and our cars: a fatal triangle?
I may never stop weeping after reading The Washington Post’s feature, “Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?” It was published in 2009, but the heartbreaking stories of children who died as a result of an accidental moment of forgetfulness are not isolated…
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Sensory overload Saturday
Welcome to a day in the life of me and my SPD kid. Some days are manageable, and some days are so off-the-chart bonkers that it really tests my faith in my ability to be a good parent. Today was definitely one of those days. I have to keep reminding myself that she (as of yet)…
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Saying goodbye to Friday
In the nearly four years since my daughter was born, I have spent almost every Friday with her. When I went back to work after my 4 months of maternity leave were up, I chose a compressed schedule that allowed me the opportunity to spend one day during the week with her. After I lost my job…
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Learning to navigate through the sensory landscape: life with SPD
I’ve recently started blogging for the SPD Blogger Network, a website designed for those writing about raising a child with Sensory Processing Disorder. A couple of my posts should be published soon, and I’m hoping it will be helpful for others who are trying to understand what it’s like to live with and help raise a…
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Everybody up on the poop deck!
Spend enough time around toddlers and old people and it doesn’t take long before you realize that bodily functions is a favorite conversation topic. With toddlers, I think it’s because it’s something they’re learning to master, whereas with old people, their ability to control it is slipping away. Either way, someone’s just getting out of…
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The good old (birth)days
My mom and I are already planning her annual trip from NYC to Atlanta for my daughter’s birthday in April. In her email to me today, she asked what we were thinking of doing for A’s birthday and then observed, “It seems that these days you don’t just go to somebody’s house where their Mom…
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