Dear Ethan,   Sunday is the two-year anniversary of losing you. Two weeks later is the two-year anniversary of finding out we’d lost you.   The last couple weeks have been full of celebration around our house—first Henry’s birthday and aunts and uncles coming home, then Christmas, and last night, New Year’s Eve. Sometimes the […]

Dear Henry,   Happy birthday! Today you are one year old, and my heart is bursting with joy. I recently made the annual photo book to share with our family, and just now I finished the slideshow of the (not quite) day-by-day photos I took of your first year. I set it to “All I […]

When I was growing up, I thought Halloween was about trying to stay warm outside at night while accumulating as many essentially free packets of Reese’s Pieces as possible.   Now that I am the mother of a food allergic child, I’m learning that it’s about a whole lot more.   It’s about finding a […]