Author: sarah14carlson

I love this time Our time when it’s just you and me as I lay you down for your nap. Turn on the sound maker. Zip up the sleep sack. See the light filter in through your fox and flower curtains. Holding you as I walk back and forth across your room. Sometimes we rock.…

You’re two and a half. You still need me as you fall asleep sometimes it’s the rocking chair sometimes it’s sitting by your bed as you drift. Tonight it was both It can be hard to be needed so late into your day Tonight it wasn’t at all. As I sit by your bed, you…

It’s time.I put the clothes on the porch. Someone is coming to pick them up. It’s their first baby and they could really use them. And they’ve been sitting in a pile ready to go for a while. All her little outfits she’s outgrown. They’re just clothes, I don’t know why it hurts. We’ve been…

I hear them downstairs little voices and big hearts dishes clanking giggles and assertive toddlers. footsteps coming up the stairs.”Surprise mommy!” blueberry pancakes on our biggest cutting board with all the fixin’s “I poured the orange juice!””I helped daddy mix the batter!” and so many cards and coupons. only a little syrup on the bed.…