From the category archives:
Lily, my baby girl, my heart swells with so much pride and love for you. I am so very blessed to be your Mommy, and so filled with excitement as I think about the years to come. Happy, Happy Birthday, my love. I adore you.
{A post from Jeff for his little girl}
If I’ve learned [...]
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You guys amazed me this week. When I asked you to write about how you were a Scary Mommy, I thought that maybe 20 of you would. I hoped for that. I feared that nobody would at all. The number of entries simply astounded me. Over the past week, I’ve read 114 amazing posts. 114 [...]
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I remember the moment quite vividly that Lily looked like a kid to me, rather than a little girl. It was heartbreaking and exciting at once. My Benji seems to be approaching that line rapidly. He’s getting to be so strong willed and independent and I’m just not ready for him to grow up so [...]
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We’ve been waiting all summer for today.
But now that it’s here,
I just want her home.
And she couldn’t disagree more.
{Update 4:00 PM: School was “SO much FUN! I Loved it,” she reported. She cannot wait to go back– I don’t think I EVER felt that way about school. It’s adorable!}
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The 4th of July has always been special to me. I was born just a few days before, on the same day as my grandpa. Our birthdays, and later just mine, turned into a week long celebration. Some of my best childhood memories were made during this time of parades, parties and fireworks.
The home I [...]
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I don’t save birthday cards. I hate receiving overpriced flowers when I can create a free bouquet from my own yard. There are very few movies that reduce me to tears and I don’t cry at weddings. Since I wasn’t blogging when my older kids were babies, I have no record of their early milestones. [...]
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My hopes for you, my sweet birthday boy…
I hope you always wake up in the best of moods. It’s a joy to greet you at the crack of dawn.
I hope you always make me laugh, just as you have every single day for the past two years.
I hope you never lose that sparkle in your [...]
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Happy Birthday, my little girl.
Thank you for introducing me to this wonderful world of motherhood. I couldn’t love it, and you, any more…
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As a child, I was convinced that my stuffed animals had feelings. I used to alternate which would get the prime spot next to me on the bed, or got taken to school, so not to hurt any feelings. I took it very seriously. When I did leave the rest for school, I would arrange [...]
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Moments after Lily was born, Jeff turned to me and asked, “our wedding was still the happiest day of my life– is that wrong?” Sweaty, exhausted and exposed, I wasn’t exactly jumping for joy myself. As a new parent, it felt so wrong to admit that. Of course, the birth of my first born would [...]
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