A beautiful autobiography and love story about caregiving - or a beautiful caregiving story about love. #365books
Category: Caregiving
365 Books: Frog and Toad are Doing Their Very Best by Jennie Egerdie (Illustrated by Ellie Hajdu)
A parody of Frog and Toad, written with love and gratitude, to help deal with bad times. #365Books
Today is Bring Your Kid to Work Day
When I was a little girl, I saw my mom at work every day. Here’s what I saw her doing: Getting us out of bed Cooking for us and making our lunches Washing dishes Dropping us off at school Vacuuming and dusting Doing laundry Ironing Cleaning up our messes and the messes that our pets …
The Family Photo
Throughout my childhood, my sisters and I were photographed a lot. When we were little – my sisters pre-school, I was in kindergarten only because my mom couldn’t handle three small children at once – mom took a photography course. Being a young mom with three restless kids, no support network, and little money, she …
Space Between Snowflakes
I woke up early this morning, thoughts already racing. Yesterday felt chaotic to me. In the middle of a tense meeting that I was leading, my phone – which I had forgotten to silence – starting pinging with notifications. My elderly mother was on the way to the emergency room in an ambulance. There was …