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Driving up to visit my brother and his family, Jaclyn singing loudly in the back seat, she stopped and asked: “why did you want a girl?”

Last night we got talking about what keeps a couple together.

Doubt is the worst.

“Choosing not to shame, or instruct, or correct, but rather observe, delight in, and love your child with no strings attached is as active-parenting as it gets.”

My level of comfort going with Jackie to the doctor has increased. I feel like I belong. I am her advocate, comforter, her mom, and I trust her and she trusts me.

From a mild cough to keeping her home to rest better during the day, it progressed to the craziest Symptoms: fever and shivers, nausea, muscle pain, difficulty breathing, crankiness … and I realize how little we know, how helpless I feel, how on edge we ca get when sleep deprived.

I went to a Sting concert last night. It was groovy. I’m not the concert going type. I never was. But last night was cool. I was wearing one of my Apple earring pairs, a gift from a former Apple colleague. My unusual earring are conversation starters. Conrad got to tell someone that I actually…

Tonight we were trying to help her answer the “How old are you?” question in english, without getting silly or freeze. Then I asked her about her name to which she answered in clear crisp english: “My name is Jackie!” and it took me by surprise. We never taught her this. Then I kept going:…

My dad is the meticulous talker. As a teenager it drove me crazy. But he built the best foundation for me as a kid. He was the affirmer. The patient explainer. The repeater.

It has been easier than I had expected. It always is in retrospect. But truly, the color, the joy, the thousand decibels of giggles they paint the picture of parenting in full splendor.