letting go
Outside looking in: a flash-forward peek at my future in parenting
My daughter recently competed in her first chess tournament. I was more nervous than she was. She’s only 5, and I worried about sportsmanship, I worried about whether she would have fun. I worried about whether she would get bored, or scared. She was just excited that she would get to play chess: Five games of […]
Letting Her Grow
I know, I know. People tell me they grow up so fast, but this is too much – Gem is already getting too big for some of her clothes. Some she didn’t even get to wear. On Thursday, we had a well baby checkup. At 6 weeks old, she weighs 12 pounds, 4 ounces – […]