18 Reasons I Miss My Step-kids. 14
by 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off. That’s the summer custody arrangement that Momma Bird and her ex have with Yankee Bird and Sister Bird. It’s very hard on Momma Bird to be without her kids for 2 weeks at a time.
The Bird Family
By losing a holiday, we gained a stronger family. 2
by ” ‘Tis healthy to be sick sometimes” — Henry David Thoreau
Why a diagnosis of Down Syndrome just didn’t matter. 35
by “I don’t give a [expletive deleted] if he has Down Syndrome, Up Syndrome, or Halfway- in-Between Syndrome – would you please stop my wife from bleeding out so she can hold her son?” That was my reaction to the neonatologist’s diagnosis of Down Syndrome in the Emergency Room. I […]
A Year of Breakfasts 6
by After we learned a baby was on the way, I began to worry that the older kids might get “lost in the shuffle”. While everyone was goo-ing and gaa-ing over the cute baby, I worried that they would become (or start believing they’d become) an afterthought. I had an […]
Maw of the Machine. 1
by Here’s a poem I (Sister Bird) wrote for school. This is copyrighted stuff that I own, so don’t be stealing my work or you’ll be swimming with the fishes, capisce? MAW OF THE MACHINE Twisted, broken metal menaces Reach up, shedding rusty leaves There are no trees – Just […]
Would you like to trade babies? (Just kidding)
by Momma Bird tried to warn me that these first few weeks were going to be rough. She said (paraphrasing) that babies drive you to the precipice of exhaustion, and right when you are about to jump off, they bust out a smile or a giggle and invigorate you for […]
Let There be Songs … to Fill the Air 2
by Momma Bird has told me that when she got home from the hospital with the 2 older babies, her first thought was, “Now what do I do?”
