Liam

  • My Baby, My Boy

    In fourteen days, my baby will be one year old.  People are asking me the plan for the first birthday.  I’m working 12,13,14 hour days, his father is working endless days, we are…

  • Friday Night in Mo-Town

    I am drinking my second beer of the night, in my hotel room, listening to the sounds of the various humans occupying their little blocks of space beside me, below me, above me.…

  • Happy Mother’s Day

    Mother’s Day morning at church.  A carnation for me, my mother-in-law, all the mothers who come. Home for lunch.  And then I drive away. I’m really sad.

  • Between

    We were down to nursing just once a day, in the morning.  He would wake at 4, 5, 6, always early, and I would pull him into Jack’s bed and lay between them…

  • Two Cute Kids

    I got home tonight just in time to nurse Liam before bed (it is the thick of exam study time).  He gazed up in my face, thrilled I was there, and then clicked…