School’s (almost) out for summer!
For kids in Uvalde Texas, school’s out forever. It’s so terrible. Personally, I find it unacceptable. Harry Styles says so, 70% of the United States electorate says so, teachers say so, and this blog says so. Here’s how you can stand with gun violence prevention orgs in Delaware and Pennsylvania. 1. Join Delaware Coalition Against Gun Violence (decagv.org) or CeaseFirePA (ceasefirepa.org). Signing up costs nothing, and when they need you to advocate to your representative, th
Feeling ’22
The Class of ’22 is doing their thing. Look at all those graduates, surrounded by love and their families and their friends and their classmates. For the past few weeks, the college graduations and all the lovely traditions they include (Mount Holyoke has a CANOE SING!) have been rolling by on the news feeds - amazing grad speakers offering sage and hilarious advice to the regalia-clad grads. Next up - the local high schools, with their own sweet traditions - the end of year
The Child Care Struggle is Real. Tell Lawmakers Today.
Families in Delaware and across the country struggle to find available, high-quality, and affordable care while child care workers earn minimum wages and lack health insurance. By Delaware standards, my family is considered “middle-income.” We currently spend over 22% of that income on child care for our two-year-old. Annually, this amounts to $15,600 for one child. For comparison, a full year of in-state tuition at the University of Delaware for 2021-2022 is $15,020. Univers
What’s For Dinner Forever
The stress of a formula shortage on top of the stress of every other part of parenting is more than anyone should ever have to bear. I was very committed to nursing and successfully did so with my first born, pumping and nursing (with amazing support from partner, family, friends, and lactation consultant) exclusively for her first 5 months. But it came with all kinds of sacrifices - including bouts of thrush (HORRIBLE), mastitis (OMG HORRIBLE) and general physical exhaustion
It Takes A Village
The Flower Market was back for a hot minute after COVID and Dolly Parton spent the lunch hour on Thursday at the Wilmington Library and it’s Mental Health Awareness Month and it feels like everything is happening at once. But the biggest one of all is that the first of allll the babies in our flock graduated from college yesterday. Read that again - a baby that I held in the hospital, that I met the day after he was born (I was busy that first day as his mother has reminded m
Mother's Day
I am just going to say that putting Mother’s Day smack in the middle of spring is some special kind of BS. Hopefully you can enjoy your day, even as you spend it at the baseball field or returning the tux or driving home from a tournament or baking for some end of year / end of season / end of Covid (???) celebration. Hopefully you’ll get a day off from stain treatment and errands and your people will be able to spoil you for a little with the thing you crave the very most —