Dear daughters, You are so incredibly loved, from your precious, sweet-smelling heads down to your less that sweet-smelling toes. You two are absolutely my dream come true. But, here's the thing, sometime when you dream, you forget about the scary parts. And, parenting has lots of scary parts. Intermingled with the joy-filled, gut-busting laughing, tickly, snuggly parts, and the mom-look, stern-voiced, chore-enforcing parts, and the boo-boo soothing, lap-making, tear-wiping, comforting parts, and all the other delicious morsels that make up family life, are the parts that make parents (and guardians) scared and nervous. Because all we want is to experience you experiencing joy. And we are scared because we know the reality is that life isn't all joy. That it is up and down, and back and forth, and round and round. We know that life is beautiful, but that it is also hard. And the scariest thing is that we can't make it any easier for y...
Doodling and sketching is a creative outlet for me. This is where I can share those doodles with all of you.