Kids

Dean is eight, Rey is six, and there is one very loud dog.

Dean is eight and Rey is six, and most of what I know about parenting them I learned about four months too late. There’s no advice here — just what it actually looks like in our hallway, in our car, at our kitchen table.

Kids shoes and a backpack scattered by the front door in soft daylight
A basket of folded laundry beside an open window with a sheer curtain in afternoon light
KidsJune 30, 20264 min read

The summer I refused to fill

Dean is eight and Rey is six. I stopped signing them up for everything this summer, and I am hoarding the empty afternoons.