It’s interesting looking back on my life with Colitis. For the past few months I’ve been obsessed with remembering moments and symptoms and comparing notes. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I’m trying to get a handle on a why and how. Why it happened? And how did it get…
Tag: parenting
Very First Back To School Night
I can remember helping the teacher prep for Back To School Night by taping up book reports, artwork and pictures he/she took of the class. Back To School Night was such an exciting night growing up! Showing mommy and daddy our desks, projects and listening to the teacher talk about…
Sweet Little Piggy Piggy…
The other night I was putting my son to bed and I took his little lamb, Lamby Lamb, and had him do a short song and dance for Jaxon. Nothing major, just a little stuffed animal floppy jig and little tune to go with it. I think it went, I…
A Spoon Full Of Reality Helps The Medicine Go Down
I have to say that God knew what he was doing when he guided my spirit to my mother. She is the best person to mentor me through this life. I don’t see it everyday, but sometimes my heart opens up and I hear her. I heard her tonight. My…
Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries…
…Something I learned at 16 through the amazing voice of Valarie Pettiford. I didn’t know her then. But I had seen her and listened to her and knew her through the revival of Bob Fosse through the show, Fosse. What I didn’t know was that I was about 2 degrees…
Someone Told Me NOT To Write About This…
…So I will! Right now there is someone sitting on their couch, not bathed, surrounded by baby items with dried spit up on their neck and wrists, hair hasn’t been conditioned in weeks and they haven’t slept in what feels like years. She’s sitting there trying to make sense of…
