by Robin | Apr 5, 2011 | Faith, Family, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Photos
His bones were broken… And though it could’ve been much worse, he had surgery… …felt lousy for a little while, and will have to sit out most of the soccer season. When it happened and he was hurting bad, I was hurting bad. And...
by Robin | Mar 24, 2011 | Family, Funny Stuff!, Humor, Kids, Life with boys, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens
He's amused, this boy-man of mine, perhaps more with himself than me; he knows . He likes this power, the ingenuity to hold me hostage, to keep me waiting and wondering, the ability to make me laugh. It is his super power and he brandishes it at will...
by Robin | Mar 18, 2011 | Family, Health, Kids, Mom stuff, Personal, Teens & Tweens
Our appointment is at 1:45, perfect timing to complete the oldest one's post-surgery follow-up visit, stop for a snack afterwards, then drop him off before picking up the youngest for his tennis match. The waiting room is large and full. There are...
by Robin | Mar 17, 2011 | Family, Kids, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens
The moon is halfway through the sky and I am alone when they bring her to me and I'm glad. She is joy bundled in flannely white with end stripes in pink and blue. I smile to think she looks like an ice cream cone–swaddled tightly with the...
by Robin | Mar 14, 2011 | Breast Cancer, Cancer is NOT okay!, Inspiring, Memoir, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Personal
I remember seeing her scars one time. Only once. A body disfigured by diseased malevolence, a thief whose plunder demanded dignity and femininity and time…and eventually hope and life. It's a scant memory, a fleeting, vapored ghost, which I...
by Robin | Mar 2, 2011 | Memoir, Mom stuff
It started with a blustery day. Blustery days remind me of Winnie the Pooh, childhood comfort reading as satisfying to the soul as pot pie to the lips–tubby-little cubby-all-stuffed-with-fluff and all. Cross-legged on the floor with the book in my...