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The womb where it happens
This is how I wanted to announce my second pregnancy. Because small Hamilton obsession. (Nope, still haven’t seen it.) Sean didn’t even like me joking about waiting a month to tell him just so I...
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This time around
I say/write “this time around” a lot these days when talking/writing about my pregnancy. I can’t think about what’s happening now without my reference point of 2012/13. It’s all feels so different and...
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The crying room
On Sunday we changed up our normal schedule. Rather than go to 10:30 am Mass at the church a few blocks away we chilled in our pajamas a little longer and opted for the 11:30 service across town. A...
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Xavi is three
Xavi has been in speech therapy in Ithaca for less than a year. However, Sean and I have already met with a number of professionals in early intervention who consistently ask us to describe our son....
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Enough: On reaching milestones
When he first smiled as a tiny baby, I remember thinking, this is amazing. It was enough. And then he laughed and I wondered, how did I ever know how beautiful life could be before I heard his laugh?...
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Forty plus one
I wrote these thoughts yesterday morning. I now realize there’s a few similarities between what I wrote on Xavi’s due date and what I feel on Bubble’s due date. I seem to have skipped the nesting...
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The brief, wondrous birth of Archibald Kevin
I didn’t mean to give up blogging completely during my cuarentena (literally, quarantine, and also the 40 day postpartum period). I know most of my readers have been introduced to Archie through my...
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Papá Chepe and Undying Love
I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death. From “Resurrections”, by Sandra Cisneros in A House of My Own: Stories From My Life Papá Chepe...
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Eulogy for Papá Chepe
Today my family laid Papá Chepe to rest. I couldn’t be there for the wake and funeral. I wasn’t there to sing alongside dad, Lori and Danny nor there to pray the Rosary. I didn’t get to see Adrian...
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La Cuarentena, the first forty days
Earlier versions of this post were drafted in September-November 2016. Updated for clarity. ***The day after Mamá Toni passed away almost two years ago my mom shared an idea with me. “I was thinking...
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