Letters to My Children

to my firstborn

to my firstborn

Dear Ruth Ann, You are my eldest, my artist, the one who keeps me on task but forgets to stay on task. You have your daddy’s laid-back personality combined with the typical traits of an oldest, but oh you have your mother’s penchant for getting so lost in your art that you forget everything else….

My Mary Kate

My Mary Kate

Dear Mary Kate, There’s no way to put into words the giggle in your voice, the lilt in the way you pronounce words. A photo can capture the sprinkling of tiny freckles across your button nose, but it would take a non-stop video camera to record everything that makes you Mary Kate. You are developing…

imaginary world

Dear Ruth, You visit an imaginary world each night in your dreams. One where Aslan is both King and Friend, where Caspian is your knight in shining armor, and where there is everything you could wish. “In my Narnia there is a door into Radiator Springs,” you explain,” and a door into Betsy and Tacy’s…

Dear Son

Dear Son

Dear Son, When I found out I was expecting you, I secretly hoped you would be a boy. Your daddy loves your sisters — his two little princesses. (He liked what a customer had told him: “Having girls always made my husband feel like a king!”) But I had a feeling a son would make…

Ruth Ann’s Birth Day

Ruth Ann’s Birth Day

Our oldest daughter was born the day before Thanksgiving, November 21, 2007. In honor of her fifth birthday today, I’m sharing her birth story, transcribed from her baby album. Dear Ru, When Mommy went to the Dr. on November 21, 2007, I sure wasn’t expecting to be holding you by the end of the day.  Everything had been…

kiddoe quotes & more

kiddoe quotes & more

Dear Children of Mine, For your future entertainment, I continue to collect and compile some of the funny and random things you say and do.  Some quotes are from Facebook, some memories are jotted down here as I remember them.  My oh my, you come up with some creative uses of the English language! Two…

Mary Kate’s Birth Day

Mary Kate’s Birth Day

in honor of our second daughter’s third birthday I’m posting her birth story… originally written September & October, 2009 Dear Mary Kate, During your first week of life, your daddy commented on how quickly one adjusts to a “new normal.”  And when your Grandma kissed you goodbye when you were two weeks and two days…

little ballerinas

Dear Ru and Mary, We hesitated, at least momentarily, to take you to a ballet.  Somehow we knew it would mean endless twirling around the house and the necessary creation of tutus.  And of course, I recalled my childhood fascination with ballet and my fruitless attempt at taking lessons (your mother isn’t coordinated—one week at…

The End.

The End.