Following your heart to you I could never follow although there are pockets of time where I did my best to fit into another’s ideal. I wasn’t consistent in my longing to belong. It’s random and peppered haphazardly over my past. I’d see something shiny out of the corner of my eye and covet. The [...]
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Dear Daughter Reflection on love and understanding, the difference between head and heart… I watch you in wonder and awe. I am terrified for you, but that is the mother in me wanting to protect you from life. The woman in me knows this is impossible and the most I can do is share my [...]
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Me, me, me, me, me! Before, when I was younger and life seemed endless, this statement was absolutely true. Then along came marriage, two babies, one retarded dog, one twenty pound Bob Cat pretending to be a domestic feline, and all the other things that explode in a woman’s life demanding her full time attention. [...]
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From Notes to Caitlin Over the years, we have talked at length about the journey. As with most of my parental skills the journey chats came up haphazardly. There is no ‘How to Book’ that can truly prepare a person to be a parent. The best education is learned on the job in the heat [...]
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I brought her home from the hospital in the middle of a snowstorm. She was born at Queen Mary’s, Sidcup, technically a suburb of London. Giving birth the National Health way meant midwives were at my side during her birth since it was a low risk pregnancy and early testing indicated that she was destined [...]
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