Jennifer Briggs

Sarah read a level 2 beginning reader book, that she had never seen before, almost all by herself!!! The book was Miss Bindergarten and the Very Wet Day. Overall, she seems more comfortable with reading books than she sometimes has been. I am getting better at letting the girls help with some tasks around the… Read more »

Whenever something is harder than usual with the girls or amiss in some way I usually wonder what dietary thing I have to change. As I learned with Sarah’s hands (now resolved!), it isn’t always food. Last weekend was rough, Monday was rough, Tuesday was rough but then led to wonderful things. I think Sarah… Read more »

Last week when I wrote I wanted to keep everything focused on the positive side because all of what I wrote was so true and I didn’t want to take away from it at all. The details that didn’t make it in had to do with our ongoing potty journey that is most of the… Read more »

Nine years ago today Sarah made her debut into this world two weeks early and with a bit of unexpected (sometimes stressful) adventure along the way, setting the tone for the next nine years. What a feisty, determined, passionate little bear she is. What a blessing to have her in our lives exactly as she… Read more »

Sarah has been totally rocking her coat zipper. She does it all by herself almost all the time now. One thing that may have helped is that with my horrendous cough lingering and being horrendous at terrible times (in the waiting room at the pediatrician’s office while waiting to find out that Sarah had pink… Read more »

I have a nasty cough that has been mightily interfering with sleep. I don’t understand why it gets worse at night. I understand it getting worse when I am horizontal, but why also as the hours get later? Sarah is sick too, though it is mild so far. Carl seems to have gotten over his… Read more »

We are taking a break from eggs. Sigh. I sincerely hope that the dramatically increased frequency of Sarah’s middle of the night parties was just due to Christmas excitement, travel excitement, and getting back in a normal routine kerfluffle. In case it was food related, I thought one plausible culprit was eggs so we are… Read more »

On New Year’s Eve we did an early count-down celebration with the girls. At the suggestion of a friend who was visiting, we asked them if they had a favorite moment or thing from the year that they remembered. Amy said it was dressing up as a ballerina for Halloween. Sarah thought for a while… Read more »

The day after I sent my last update I did receive an email from my crush school explaining a little bit more. Apparently their actions were in response to how much they thought I was clear that I didn’t want Sarah to have a helper. While it is true I hoped and thought she might… Read more »

In the past week, basically on parallel hospice timelines, I have had two people I care about die. One was unexpected and someone my age. Another was a family member who lived a wonderful, long life. I’ve been thinking a lot about life and death and how we move through life and emotions. I didn’t… Read more »