Families

Family travel helped me see what I'd been missing out on.

The night I discovered that tumor on her back was essentially just like any other.

No one ever told me that relaxing would be such a hard thing to do.

A lot has been written about what not to say to a pregnant person. Being on the opposite side of that, I’ve learned pregnant people make mistakes, too.

Being a parent has given me the career that I had only previously dreamed of.

When I check on our daughter before heading to bed myself, I have to do a quick scan around her full-size bed just to locate her. She is almost never remotely close to where she started out. But she is almost always upside down, head jammed up against the wall or her footboard, stuffed animals scattered like confetti all around her.

You don't have to feel lost without your children, or miss them to the point of paralysis to be a good, even a great, mother.

I’ve run out of patience. I’ve run out of polite ways to say sit down and shut up.