Dear Timo, Every year on your birthday, I look at photos of you, and I marvel… and cry. Somehow, in the blink of an eye, you have gone from a 5 pound newborn to a 5 year-old boy. Beautiful at birth, delicate and serene, we fawned over your exquisite bone structure… which was quickly obscured
Tag: communicating with your toddler
What the book says: Potty training can be crappy. But it doesn’t have to be. Reality: Crap. Everywhere. What the book says: It will be fun. It will be worth it. It’s only 3 days, you’ve got this! Reality: It will be hell. You will question everything including what you have done karmically to earn
The day I found out I was going to have a little girl was a glorious one. I envisioned someone who would share the same interests, beliefs, and hobbies as her mother. I imagined a little girl who would inherit her parents’ good qualities because we would always be on our best behavior –