Ages + Stages

Captain’s Log, Stardate 10.19.2016 Our three-person crew entered Kinder Quadrant just six weeks ago, and we are still adjusting to this strange new world.   This morning, I came to realize it’s time for “The Talk.” “But Sarah,” I hear voices crying...

Going into my fifth pregnancy--fourth birth--I considered myself an expert level of parent. I have dealt with everything you can imagine, including a child vomiting poop. (Yes, that can happen and yes, it happened in my kitchen!) I have...

I've been looking for our Christmas tree star for the past 3 days. It's always in the same closet with the tree. The tree is up, ready to be trimmed, and I can't find our star. It's not that...

I feel like I can finally say it and actually believe it: having twins is awesome. It took me a really long time to get here. I mean I always thought they were pretty adorable--who couldn't help but love those...

I wish I had known that memories from the twins' infancy and toddlerhood wouldn't stick in my memory bank. Maybe I could have prepared for it somehow, like really tried to soak in all the moments from when they...

Very early on in our parenting life, after Ray died, my husband and I decided that Ray would continue to be a part of our family, of our lives. We would continue to have pictures up of him in...

It happened. Just last week. My preschool-aged daughter came home with a backpack full of glitter crafts, summer soccer sign ups, and the thing every mother dreads the most: a letter from the school nurse warning parents that cases...

It’s the middle of the night the week before your 21st birthday and I can’t help but reflect back to back on the earlier years. The night you were born was the first major snowfall of the season. You...

I know. I know. You’re thinking, “Lady, I don’t have a green thumb. In fact, if there were such a thing as a thumbless gardener, that’d be me. I can not grow stuff in gardens!" Here’s my secret. I kill...

I think it starts before the first kid even arrives. You need to pack for the hospital, so you check with friends and family who have had kids, you google lists and suggestions, and you start the process. You could...