A blink, perhaps a flash, and it’s already November. It feels like an old cliché but time, as I remember it from my childhood, even early adulthood, seemed to move so much slower then. I feel now like the weather was just starting to get warmer, only to find all the leaves [...]
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Sofia, You are three years old. You are 36.5 inches tall, and weigh 32 pounds. You have the same beautiful curly hair as your Mama, but the color is the same as your Auntie DeDe’s when she was your age. You almost always wear your glasses, only taking them off for bath time, naps, soccer, and [...] I don’t know if this is the case for every mom. I seem to reach a point where I stop seeing my children as infants, seemingly clueless little babies with little awareness of what’s going on around them beyond the toy or bottle in their hands, and begin to see them as little people. Oddly [...] I grew up in a fairly old house, built in the late 1800’s. Although I never did the research to confirm its origin, I have been told that back when my hometown was mainly farmland (a part of the Providence Plantations) our house belonged to the assistant superintendent. The house next door was much bigger [...] My daughter Sofia just turned 3 a few weeks ago. Whether or not you ask she is more than happy to let you know her age, which is followed quickly by “Mama is 3 and 5”. Sigh. Having turned 3 years old, a whole new world is opening up for Sofia with lots of new and [...] |
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