The Vacations I’m Dreaming About for Our Family

I am so glad that we finally started taking vacations. For years, vacations felt like something other people did. We had reasons not to go, reasons to wait, reasons it wasn't the right time, or just the very practical reality of having a kid, bills, work schedules and approximately 900 things t…

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Maybe Time Didn’t Speed Up, Maybe Life Just Got Fuller

I feel like having a child completely changes your relationship with time. I don't know if that's true for every parent, or if some of it is specific to those of us who had babies and toddlers during COVID, when the normal markers of time seemed to disappear. But sometimes I look at the year…

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I Didn’t Know I Was Living the Good Old Days

Sometimes I look at pictures from my childhood and feel a kind of grief I didn't expect to feel as an adult. Not because I want to go back and be a kid. I don't want to trade my life now for my childhood. I like being a mom. I like having my own home, making my own decisions, and building a …

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