My older two were toddlers when I started writing them down. Not their milestones, exactly. Something smaller: a child asleep in a patch of afternoon light, a hand that used to vanish inside mine and no longer did.
For fourteen years I kept at it. The posts here are not a record of achievements. They are something quieter: an afternoon, a pink bike outgrown, a bedroom door that began staying shut.
Read in order, they become a time-lapse. Toddlers at the top of the page, teenagers near the bottom, and me in every one of them, learning slowly to let go.
Start at the beginning if you have the afternoon. The chronology is the story.
The Small Years (2010–2014)
- Mar 2010 · My Everyday Hero!
- Feb 2011 · My Little One Is Growing Up!
- Sep 2011 · Letting Go. Holding Tight.
- Jul 2012 · Letting Go
- Jul 2013 · Shifting Sands
- Jul 2013 · Push Or Let Go?
- Dec 2013 · Don’t Grow Up So Fast
- Jun 2014 · Pebbles In The Sands Of Time
- Jul 2014 · Change Of Guard
- Jul 2014 · Older, Wiser
- Aug 2014 · Sleeping Child
The Middle Stretch (2015–2019)
- Sep 2015 · On Kids, Growing Up And Gratitude
- Apr 2016 · Growing Up
- Jul 2017 · Of Summers And The Slowing Of Time
- Jul 2017 · Hot Pink Bikes And Time That Zooms Ahead
- Oct 2017 · In The Blink Of An Eye
- Apr 2018 · Before And After
- Jun 2018 · Outpacing Me
- Nov 2018 · Slice Of Life: Watching Children Grow
- Nov 2019 · Growing Up
The Fast Part (2022–2024)
- Jul 2022 · Inexorable Change
- Sep 2024 · Nostalgia: Trapped In A Bottle