It's fun and unifying to share the good times. We know, though, that motherhood is more than this. It is harder than this.

Sometimes, quiet is the best way to make it right.

he was seeing it all, the sweet and wild tonic of words, in ways that I've forgotten, no longer so young, so open, so rapid, so endless, a basin of sounds and swirling images, a white page.

I offer you my thanks. Because while I'd like to think that there's a little bit of me sewn into you, when you get right down to it, you are everything I strive to be.

My kids are growing up on an island, and for that I am thankful.

My daughter wants all of me: my attention, my hand, my time, my privacy and my lap.

I’m lying to buy time. I’m hoping by the time you two are old enough to learn the truth about the world, it will be a better place.

There's nothing easy about raising a strong-willed toddler, but I wouldn't change this for the world.

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This middle area, an unexpected realm within these two emotional extremes, can only be described as cautious contentment.