**This post was most recently updated in April 2024 after being lost to a virus in 2022** I’ll never forget the first time Augustine sucked her thumb. We were sitting on a couch – well, I was sitting on the couch and she was laying in my arms….but I should back up…. I...
When a 5 feels like an 8 or 9. Dear Augustine, Happy Birthday. caveat* *Today is actually the day after your birthday. Maybe this is setting us up for belated birthday presents when you have moved out on your own. You should probably expect that because my...
I’m very uncomfortable with my daughter’s relationship with death. First off, Augustine knows real death. 2019 will probably always be remembered by us as the ‘Year of Dying’. First my Grandmother died December 2018 and then our dog Bolt passed in May. Two deaths...
It feels like you are about to go to college. Dear Augustine, Today you are four years old – an age that always felt to me as so impossibly young. The kind of age for a baby. Someone who still wears diapers and can talk but can’t be understood…until you became four....
