They say home is where the heart is and, right now, my heart beats in the walls of this space where I cradle eight years of memories in a tender fold of my heart.
Sticky Sweet
I could hardly contain my heart under my ribs at her birthday circle the next day, as a room of tiny souls who adore my girl proclaimed their love for her hugs, her playground skills, her smile.
Skiing Bliss
By Nici Holt Cline. Skiing was immediately a favorite family activity.
Begin
Mom feels unsettled about her daughter starting kindergarten in the fall.
Bendy
If I had to name one thing that I have learned since becoming a parent it is that “plans” are really flexible aspirations; that everyone’s happiness increases exponentially with how bendy the whole approach is.
Generations
I remember the moment I truly understood that aging happens to everyone, that death is inevitable and family is everything.
You Can Always Come Back Home
Mom and Dad? If I go somewhere else to college or something, I can always come back to Montana, right? Because I know I will always want to be in Montana.
It’s All Big And Important
Melina's anchors are different than mine but every time we connect I understand they are really the same, just in different decades. She is me, sometime ago. And I am her sometime ahead. Or vice versa. Or both.
Water Is The Antonym To Terror
The familiar words reach our ears. I hate that they are familiar. Isis. Extremist. Suicide bomber.
Rainbow Cake For My Girl
I stayed up really late on Friday night making her cake. It wouldn’t have been as late had I remembered to grease the cake pans, had the cakes come out cleanly, had I only had to make four cakes one time.
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