She doesn’t have a million words yet, but she’s collecting more and more, stringing them together, surprising and delighting all of us. What makes me smile and smile big is that her clearest word, by far, is yes.
Yes.
It…
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This morning. Circa 7:40am. It was time to get the big girls out the door and head to school. And Little Girl stood next to us by the front door and cried. “Bye bye too! Bye bye too!” she crooned.…
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Saturday morning. We bundled up and headed to the ice skating birthday party. It would be the big girls’ first time on ice and they were pumped. We piled in a yellow cab. Minutes later, we arrived at our destination:…
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Have you had wine yet?
I’ve gotten this question a lot over the past week. And it makes perfect sense. After all, I chose to go public with my yearlong dip into the dry life and I chose to write…
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dear lee,
A week ago, you and I and dozens of women gathered in my yellow living room to talk. It was quite amazing, really, the whole thing. We discussed your latest book, the beautiful and also bestselling Those We…
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I’m thrilled to report that my This Is Childhood letter to Little Girl is up on the front page of HuffPost Parents! Head on over and check it out if so inclined and if you have the urge to leave…
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{I concluded that this picture was sufficiently anonymous. And sufficiently perfect!}
little girl,
Last week, we visited your big sister’s Kindergarten class during lunchtime to celebrate her sixth birthday. Our visit conflicted with your nap-time and it was my instinct…
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The plan was to forgo blogging this weekend, but I couldn’t resist… We just had the most amazing meeting with our fabulous wedding photographer Philippe Cheng. We are going to work with him on finally doing our wedding album, on…
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Tuesday was a really hard day for me. I woke up anxious, out-of-step. Big Girl was a weepy mess on the way to school and wouldn’t tell me why and I tried to coax it out of her with the…
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big girl,
Oh how I love this picture. You were going on ten months old. It was your aunt Ceara’s wedding day. There you are, bald, bald, bald, and there I am, mid-coiffure, my hair in curlers. We are in…
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