Paper Doll Tales Posts

A head, downy as a baby mole’s underbelly, snuggles velvet under my chin. With each tiny puff of breath comes a mourning dove’s sigh: “Coo…coo…coo…coo.”  The breath would not pass…

Thoughts and Musings

It’s not lost on me that Little Friend is a little less than Little these days. Let’s be honest. Body snatchers visited on the night of April 25th, whisked away…

Thoughts and Musings

You could write the story of the past month of my life using only Google queries that have been pecked into my iPhone in the wee hours of morning: “When…

Kids and Treasures Thoughts and Musings

I’ll refrain from saying “I told you so.”  When we opted to wait until the delivery room to discover Little One’s gender, we were met with a variety of reactions,…

Kids and Treasures Thoughts and Musings

“Eeeeeek!!!  We are two girls who hate snakes!”  She shrieks in a falsetto “this must be what girls sound like when they’re scared” kind of way.  She’s huddled against my…

Thoughts and Musings

Today Little Friend started wondering about future candy windfalls in her life.  As in, “When will it be Easter again?”  The Easter candy pile, carefully doled out a piece per…

Kids and Treasures Thoughts and Musings