New life

Reading the news can be depressing is an understatement.  Scandals, murders etc.. Today, when I looked up from my phone and into my daughters smiling face,  I felt the most relief and gratefulness so far. When she was a screaming extremely vulnerable newborn and I got messages asking “are you adoring motherhood? Are you head…

I am going to live

A very sad headline met my eyes this morning:  “US Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin found dead in her Stanford residence at age 23.” The following excerpt from Cindy Boren's Washington post article stuck in my brain like glue. Catlin was one of a set of triplets; her sister, Christine, wrote in an email that Kelly Catlin…

Thank you for waking me up…

... at 6 am so we can play. Thank you for telling me (several times through the night) how much you love my  milk. Thank you for always wanting mama after making new friends. Thank you for helping me practice piano by crying until I play. Thank you for the days when you  only want…