Liam

  • Care Work

    Today I am largely engaged in care work – feeding ice to a pale and sweaty six year old who can’t keep food or drink in his stomach today; following him around the…

  • Drizzly Zoo Trip

    Faced with the prospect of a rainy Saturday with the kids by myself, I contemplated staying home – them destroying the house, fighting, bouncing off the walls.  I contemplated the aquarium – eleventy…

  • Why My Sons are the Best

    Craig knows new words every day.  Every day.  Today, for example, he said such sentences as “No bedtime yet for Craig.” “Line ’em up, cars!” “I want juice or milk baba.” “Aunt Corrie,…

  • Babies Babies Babies

    I’m surrounded by preggos.  One friend at work just had a baby girl and three others are pregnant with boys (due in December, January, and March).  My sister is also due to have…

  • Those Boys, Though

    Yesterday, Jack went to a Cub Scout meeting with his dad.  Craig was asleep, and so it was just Liam and me.  Middle child that he is, my Liam flourishes under individual attention…