Oh, new year. You arrive with such fanfare! Plunging necklines and tiny finger foods. Party horns and midnight kisses and champagne toasts. For me, you arrived in a cramped hotel room, watching the ball drop on TV with two of my kids draped across my lap and the other two snoring away on the floor. For my sweet husband, you arrived in a ballroom four floors down from me, with a blast of champagne spray drenching his DJ laptop. Not my …
Hello, January. Here's the deal.
Happy New Year! Yay, it's January. The holidays have come and gone in a flash (at my house, anyway - seems like Christmas was over before it began) and we're already a few days into this brand new year. I want to thank all of you who reached out to me with such kindness after my last post, which admittedly, was kind of a downer. I did feel relief from finally sharing it with the world and getting it out of my head, but this space has felt kind of …
Distracted by social media, I almost lost my son.
Something awful happened at the tail end of our California vacation last June. A near-miss so traumatizing that it's taken me six months to write about it. As the year is winding down, I'm looking back on all the fun stuff we did as a family, and this one memory is like a sharp little pain in the corner of my mind. It's my hope that sharing it now will help me move forward and let go of some of the guilt. Last June, my family took a road trip …