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How to prepare for your ninth baby

So far we’ve bought ___________.

I’ve washed ________.

We got ______ out of storage.

We cleaned ________ and _________.

The baby’s name is _________.

In other words, we’ve done nothing. The closest I’ve come to nesting for Mr. Baby is seriously considering buying this onesie. But I didn’t buy it. I […]

Oh simple thing, where have you gone?

A year ago today, my son found a dead body.

He told me. I looked and explained away what I was seeing. I looked again and then again. I saw the man’s folded eyeglasses resting neatly next to him. Homeless, he went to sleep one night under the stars near Boulder Creek and never […]

Mourning with those who mourn

I wrote about the Aurora movie theater massacre at Mile High Mamas. How do you share hard, brutal news with your kids? Do you shelter or tell-all? Because it struck in our own backyard, it’s especially at the forefront of our minds. Every TV station is covering it relentlessly. Everyone is talking about it. A […]