Category Archives: Life After Children

I got an email from one of the co-ordinators the other day, asking me about my project allocations. Effectively, she was noticing that I was 130 percent allocated to projects, plus I was doing some internal work setting up a … Continue reading →

If I could leave only a single gift to my nieces and nephews it would be that. Resilience. If I could only teach one thing to grieving mothers, it would be that. Resilience gets a bad rap. It gets trampled … Continue reading →

I sat, in a puddle of sweat, wondering. Tucked at my desk, in the corner of an office that was to be a nursery. My chair sits where the crib was going to be. I missed a spot of the … Continue reading →

Than to tell you it was on sale, and I dearly wanted the star wars game and the gaming console came painted like R2D2 (with a controller painted like C-3PO). If you were wondering, Mr. Spit told me about the … Continue reading →

One of the commentors yesterday asked if I wanted people to tell me about, what is in essence, their fertility. Did I want people to tell me they were expecting, did I want them to talk about their pregnancy? When … Continue reading →

I suppose there are two problems with the situation. The first is a bit more straight forward. I have a colleague, one I would have called a friend, and his partner was pregnant. The first I found out about it … Continue reading →

We had 8 couples over for our Marriage Group on Saturday because it was our turn to host. What turned into 17 people was far, far too many for our house. I found it, to be frank, quite overwhelming. There … Continue reading →

Every so often, mostly in that liminal space as I fall asleep or begin to wake up, my brain is free enough from the tethers I keep on it, the daily cares of life, and I begin to understand that … Continue reading →