Tag: parenting
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Trust (III)
Before her head hits the pillow, she laments, “I can’t sleep;” and so the littler one joins her, “I. Can’t. Sleeeeeep,” she says as she falls sideways on her bed. I listen to myself whisper, “Sleep will come to you. Sleep will come to you; it just takes practice.” I say it many times in…
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Trust (II)
Our two babes sit snugly in their seats at the center of our van; our two big kids have the back and we the front. He reaches over to hug me, and in a flash I see us older, stronger, wiser, steady. Somewhere, somehow, we make it; We are both there at the end together.
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At Grandma’s house on Pap Pap’s day
At Grandma house on Pap Pap’s day we eat and walk, we run and play, we eat and sit, waste the day in love. Everyone loves and everyone is loved at Grandma and Pap Pap’s house.
Amy Secrist 