I changed my mind.  First, I told my husband that I wanted to spend Mother’s Day attending church as a family, then going to brunch at my mother’s house, and then hiking with the kids …

So many nights, my husband and I are so rendidos from the marathon we are running right now- three young children and two flexible but preoccupying careers- that we hardly talk.
We are happy together …

Los expertos (whoever they are) say toddlers laugh more than 300 times a day.  The number doesn’t matter; se rien más que tu.  Their laughter a chortle, a giggle, algo que les entra and tumbles …

There is a quiet wisdom in the flowers.  Even after the months of frio, the smothering of the snow, nothing but grey sky memories, the flores return anyway.  When the moment is right, a bloom.
 
What …

Sometimes it gets to me how quiet many of my friends’ and neighbors’ homes are. Maybe quiet’s not the right word- they’re not noiseless- but they lack that blend of sound on in the background- …