By the Way

2016 almost perfectly encompassed a year of babyhood. I started the year pregnant and exhausted, just two weeks out from giving birth. ...

This is the season of darkness. We eat breakfast and dinner with a backdrop of blackness. Every day is just a little shorter, as th...

One delivery company has packages piled up on the ground just before classes let out.  A few minutes later the whole area was filled with ...

A week ago I wrote about the benefits of parenting in China . I'll be honest – this list was easier to think of. I suppose that...

 “We should never even try to leave the house,” I think. Adalyn is at the marvelous age (3) when she suddenly thinks she can do whateve...

At a restaurant recently when the girls climbed into the neighboring booth to play games on this student's phone. Last month we wer...

My life seems smaller these days, and in some ways it is. There are days when I don't leave the confines of this apartment. I rarely ...

Nadia has now reached the point where she has been alive on the outside longer than on the inside. Actually, since she was born early ...

Nadia is taking a rare long nap, the 2 hour kind that only happen when I am planning to go somewhere. I need to buy some more bread fo...

 I heard once that babies could sleep through the night from a few months old, and before I had babies I thought that meant babies did s...