Before spring break, Aidan brought a few very small sprouting plants home from school. This is the time of year when elementary school children plant seeds in old yogurt cups and two-liter Coke bottles, subjecting them to all sorts of creative growing conditions to learn which growing method is best and which will produce a […]

By now we’d have a newborn. But we don’t.

Life would look like this:

My mom would be here. I’d camp on the living room recliner, aching from the c-section. I’d be engorged and sore, shaking my head at the ridiculous notion that if it hurts, you aren’t nursing correctly. It hurts, at first. […]