Dear ME When I Am A Grandma, It's a little surreal that you've crossed into this new territory, isn't it? Just yesterday, you were changing diapers, singing lullabies, packing school lunches, and rocking babies of your own...and now, here you are, cradling the baby of your baby. Here are some pointers as you embark on […]
I still remember your 19th birthday. I planned an elaborate scavenger hunt around town - hiding clues under park benches and in library books. Remarkably, they were all still there when I sent you on that wild hunt. The maze led you to a fancy resort in the foothills. I was standing there in a […]
Every time she prays at dinner, she still whispers, "Help Grandpa not to die." He's been gone over a month now. 48 days, to be exact. But her 3-year-old heart still believes. Yesterday, I came around the corner in Tim's parents house and there she was in front of his portrait, talking to him. Her […]
You slipped away on a Monday night in September. Tim was there at the hospital, in tears. He later screamed in his car until his voice was coarse. Simultaneously, I was at home, weeping and holding Audrey on my hip. "Why, God, why?" Six-year-old Kayla walked up and put her arm around my waist, "It's […]
We married when I still had a "teen" at the end of my age. Some people cautioned us about such a young marriage. They said that we wouldn't finish college. They said that the first year was hard, that we would fight about the toilet paper roll. In actuality, the first year was a DREAM-come-true. […]
I looked in the mirror today and saw distinct wrinkles - right between my eyes and around my smile. (My first thought, I admit, was - "I wonder if I should start using wrinkle cream.") Can it be that I only have half a year left to thirty? I swear I'm still eighteen - or […]