Posted in Indi's Monthly Tributes, Kaia's Monthly Tributes on April 10, 2008 | 11 Comments »
My girls,
One day you’ll suddenly notice something. You’ll notice how summers will be endless, full of sunscreen and family road trips, naps under the canopy of a tree, and slumber parties littered with pizza boxes. Then, years later, you’ll grow into the world of adulthood and schedules and hung-over Mondays and it will hit you: [...]
Posted in Indi's Monthly Tributes, Kaia's Monthly Tributes, Life as a MereMortal Mama on January 7, 2008 | 10 Comments »
My girls,
Two moons have passed since I last attempted to chronicle your lives via fingertips to keyboard. I should be wiser by now; to know that mere keystrokes cannot appropriately catalog your life, inventory it like the iPod’ed stock boy at Wal-mart, or measure and calculate it like the most diligent accountant. [...]
Posted in Baby #2, Indi's Monthly Tributes, Kaia's Monthly Tributes on October 24, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Dear Kiki (27 mos.) and Gogo (4 mos),
Yeah, those are your nicknames. I’m sorry, they just happened. They seemed so natural.
Actually, Kaia, when you were still my womb baby - and before I knew you were a little girl - the only name I kept hearing to myself was Kiki. Then, your Uncle Craig [...]
Posted in Baby #2, Indi's Monthly Tributes on September 20, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Good morning, Indi.
Every morning is good with you, my love. Because you are my first touch, your babyness my first aroma in the morn, your face my salutation. And when we rise, I think of how you were born into your very first morning in this very same bedroom…right over there, [...]
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