Being a Mom Means

Being a mom means your glasses are always smudged. Being a mom means your clothes always have peanut butter or cheese or syrup or some mystery goop all over them as you walk around in blissful ignorance. Being a mom means you talk about poop far more than you ever thought you would be ok …

They are Getting So Big

How big are you?  SO BIG.  One of the first little games they played with their Grandma and we all cooed and laughed and clapped along with them. People always think they are older than they are.  I hear, "are they five?" often.  And my answer is usually, "they are just three, they are still …

I want to be an alcoholic when I grow up

I have this recurring dream.  Just one of many that takes me back to my desperation of being in the throes of my addiction.  I'm in my parent's basement and in front of the cabinet where they kept their scant liquor bottles.  It's bound up by one of those plastic tie locks because their daughter …