Tag Archives: family
To My Daughter on Election Day
Today I am taking you with me to vote. It’s not some grand teaching moment this is just how it goes now, you and I rarely apart. Trips to the store, trips to the doctor, trips to the office, even trips to the bathroom and now trips to the city hall to vote. I have […]
The Twelve Blogs of Christmas – It’s Gonna Be Rough
A couple weeks ago as I held a very tired little girl in my arms, laying in bed with her trying to soothe her to sleep, I told her of all the fun things that were soon to be. We talked about Christmas and the cousins we’d see. Some coming to us. Some we’d travel […]
The Twelve Blogs of Christmas – You’ll Never Know
This little girl has forever changed my life. I love her, immensely, grandly, without hesitation or question. I tell her this often. I sing it. I giggle it. I kiss it. I speak it. I pray my actions show her a thousand times a day. I find myself telling her, as we rock to sleep […]