Nurshable

Letters to a Daughter

  • Sleeping Through the Night at 23 Months

    Dear Daughter, In just 39 days you will be two years old. You have just started sleeping through the night. I remember just two weeks ago I COULDN’T DO IT ANYMORE because YOU WERE NOT SLEEPING AND I WAS TIRED… Continue reading

  • The First Two Years

    Dear Daughter, Twenty-One months, I’ve already started thinking of you as two. I remember when you were small… You are small still, but this is a different sort of small. A small that stamps around the house and that runs… Continue reading

  • I AM Bigger than You. (Big Like a Mountain in a Hurricane)

    Dear Kids, One of the phrases I hear a little too often for my liking is “I’m bigger than you” and “show them that you’re bigger than they are”. That’s one of those things that can get inside your head… Continue reading

  • In the Real World I’ll Want You to Know I’m Here For You

    Dear Kids, Eventually you’ll be going out in the real world more and more. And you’ll discover that sometimes people are really mean. In theory I should teach you to deal with this now by being really mean to you.… Continue reading

  • Motherless

    Dear Kids, Since you were born two of my mom-friends have passed away, leaving behind young children. Motherless. Adult friends have grieved the loss of their own mothers. My mother’s mother has passed away.  Your father’s best friend passed suddenly… Continue reading

  • Quiet Success (Daddy Guest Post)

    Dear Daughter, I came home today after having been at work since the day prior. Work has been busy and I was asked to do overtime the night before. Entering the house I was greeted by your smiling brothers,while you… Continue reading

  • Miley Cyrus, Slut Shaming, and The Confusion of Self Ownership

    Dear Daughter, As I write this the world around me is in an uproar about a young woman who dressed up in latex and danced with teddy bears and danced in some rather lewd ways using a baseball finger and… Continue reading

  • I Wear the Words of Others (Self Love and Self Loathing)

    I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror. Someone younger than me has said that she is old. And I will get no younger. The lines drawn on my face by my smiles and grins and the silly faces… Continue reading

  • Oh Child, You are Testing Me

    Dear Kids, You test me. You try my patience. More words that people say that I’ve instinctively pushed away because the meaning behind those words is generally “you are manipulating me. You are trying to see what you can get… Continue reading

  • Oh. So THAT is Why Moms Nurse Past a Year?

    Dear Daughter, You will be turning sixteen months old soon. You were just finishing up on a very typical nursing session for a sixteen month old, your eyes had fluttered closed and I had pulled out my cellphone to catch… Continue reading