Some Days Are Hard

March 12, 2019March 12, 2019 ~ Sahara ~ Leave a comment

The tag line on this blog is “I write to stop time,” and as I get older, I find I want to stop time more and more. (Actually, I don’t know if that’s true. There were moments I loved and wanted to hold onto when I was younger. Of course, I destroyed all my journals from before the accident and those are the memories I don’t have.)

I have to begin letting go.

Right now, Wee One is in a phase when she tells me, “You need me!” which means, “I need you,” or “I want you here with me.”

I used to say that to my mom. I would say, “I wanna hold you.”

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Four Years Old

March 6, 2019March 7, 2019 ~ Sahara ~ 2 Comments

Can you believe it? Wee One is four years old.

For the past four years and nine months, I have been anxious and worried and freaking out about how I would handle having a baby and then a toddler. All that talk about terrible twos and the threenager threat. I was so worried about being a good mother to her during that time.

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Adulting Fail

November 8, 2018November 8, 2018 ~ Sahara ~ 1 Comment

My girlfriends and I were talking the other day about feeling like “Whoa” about being adults, because two of us had just gone to our first parent-teacher conference.

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Swing, too!

September 12, 2018 ~ Sahara ~ Leave a comment

Yesterday, Wee One showed me a new trick she learned: she can sit on the big kid swing on her bottom. I have to lift her up, but she can hold on and balance and even pump her legs a bit. I’m like, you go girl. I like pushing you, but I’m glad you can do it on your own.

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Little Girl, Big Halls – Preschool

April 21, 2018 ~ Sahara ~ Leave a comment

I know I wrote the other day about having a challenging time with Wee One (challenging with a toddler? Who would have guessed?) but today is a new day and things really are grand.

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St. Nicholas Eve

December 5, 2017 ~ Sahara ~ Leave a comment

I got gold coins today. To put in our shoes tonight. For St. Nicholas Eve. This is a big step.

Since Wee One’s arrival, I’ve been trying to figure out what I want to tell her about Santa and all the other Christmas “things.” Do I want to do Elf on the Shelf? Do I want to go all out with Santa? Only talk about Jesus? Talk about the other holidays around the end of the year?

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Lines I Didn’t Expect To Utter To My Husband

September 29, 2017 ~ Sahara ~ Leave a comment

I think all parents can relate, on some level. This was from about a year ago, when Wee One was much wee-er:

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A Treasure To Keep

September 11, 2017 ~ Sahara ~ Leave a comment

Living here at Casa In-Laws and having a toddler means that I’ve gotten to know a lot of their neighbors. I has especially become good friends with our next door neighbors, who are so sweet to Wee One. They have two kids of their own: 16 & 10.

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Our Bedsharing Story – Three PSAs

August 7, 2017August 8, 2017 ~ Sahara ~ 1 Comment

A friend of mine posted a request for advice about what to do to get sleep while her 10 month old sleeps in the same bedroom. Daughter is starting to keep mom up through the night, and my friend is desperate for sleep.

Ah, how I remember those days. Rather, I remember them for their fog, not so much for what we did. At the time, it felt like it would never end, though looking back, it seems like just a blip in time.

I don’t think I’ve ever talked about our bedsharing story, so I’m going to now. Because we stepped into it quite unintentionally.

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