Real life vs. what’s on Netflix
I have explained why we can’t be “cool bad guys” like Gru from the Despicable Me movies, how Phoebe on Friends was having triplets that weren’t going to be her babies and how even though the old man we...
View ArticleNetflix Time is Me Time
The last two days have been a whirlwind of activity. Tomorrow won’t be any better. But tonight, there was stillness. Me, a bubble bath, and Gilmore Girls season two streaming on my iPad. Most of my...
View ArticleLessons in Netflix
Between high-risk pregnancy bedrest, pumping for 30 minutes 4-12 times a day, keeping unusual hours with newborn triplets (now triplets who still. don’t. all. sleep. through. the night.), I have worked...
View ArticleLove is all you need
Whoever decided to use Beatles songs to tell children’s stories is a freaking GENIUS. Toby, Eleanor and Callista have loved the Beatles since they were babies, but they’re getting to experience the...
View ArticleOn premature birth, kindergarten & fears from an alternate reality
I’ve written drafts of this in my head for months now, and nothing sounds right. I’m honestly not sure what “right” is. Here goes nothing. My babies started kindergarten this week. Well. It hasn’t...
View ArticleD-i-s-n-e-y
Who’s the leader of the land that’s there for you to stream? OK, that intro was a little gross, I know. But it’s true! How much of the world does Disney own or at least rule just a little? A ridiculous...
View ArticleI never asked for Christmas in the NICU
ETC’s first Christmas was in NICU. They were a month old, still required oxygen support and feeding tubes, and our days were spent waiting for them to outgrow episodes of apnea and bradycardia. I...
View Article‘I am writing a book’
I’ve been testing out those words on family and friends recently, I tossed them out into social media earlier this week, and it’s time to put them down here, my original and reliably always-there place...
View ArticleWhen does fairness matter?
You know how a dog tilts his head in curious confusion? That’s the look I’ve gotten lately from Toby, Eleanor and Callista when I’ve mentioned that November is Prematurity Awareness Month and that...
View ArticleWorld Prematurity Day 2017 is tomorrow
One of the tough lessons we learn as kids is that life just isn’t fair, but that lesson comes in different ways and often depends on things kids have no control over. Where we live, the color of our...
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