This is Eclipse. Every day she leaves her house, by herself, and takes the bus downtown to the dog park where she spends a couple of hours getting exercise and making friends, and then she takes the bus back home again. She even has her own bus pass attached to the collar. It started when […]

We were at 24 weeks, waiting to meet our quadruplets. Then, in a moment of heartbreak: I looked at three babies who wouldn’t come home, and I cried out, How is this God’s plan? My heart still asks that question. But even through this grief, I choose to believe—He is good, He is faithful, and […]

He Missed the Game, But He Still Came When my husband called after work and said he was on his way to the field, we were already near the end of our last at-bats. I told him he probably wouldn’t make it in time and that it was okay to just head home. The game […]

In previous Septembers, I’ve had a kid starting Reception. So here’s a bit of advice for new school parents letting go of their kids for the first time this week: 1. If they look like Oliver Twist with a hangover when you pick them up, that’s pretty standard. 2. If there’s a naughty, undesirable kid […]