This morning, his dad brought him over at 10am. We chilled for a minute. Getting our cuddles in. Then, we were off. I had heard about a Book Sale at the Fort Bragg Library and…
Posts published by “Jessica Ehlers”
40ish-year-old mom to a 13-year-old and rescued basset hounds. I am not married but the guy I live with and I are super serious. Except when we're making fart jokes and then the 13-year-old rolls her eyes and shakes her head. I am from NorCal. I live in the house I grew up in. I bake when I am nervous and I like to grow things in my front yard to nibble on and season dinner with.
Happy birthday, little man. It blows my mind to think that 5 years ago you were in my belly, bouncing on my bladder and pushing on my ribs. The day you were born, you…
It was rainy but we donned our boots and drove over anyway. We met my niece and the little man climbed up on the bed of the multicultural float with she and some friends. Then…
It was bound to happen. He's so close to being five. Certainly other kids have done it earlier. We were visiting my parents at their homestead in Albion where dinner is lovingly prepared with whatever…
Today we had a difference of opinion. We had to leave where we were because he was being disruptive and I did not feel like dragging the spectators through the negotiations. In the car I…
Holidays. As a kid I don't remember Easter being such a big deal. Maybe it's because all I had to do was wake up in the morning and all that was required was I find…
A minute ago I was anxiously taking pregnancy tests, hoping. Now my son is nearly five. People told me that would happen. Of course I had heard it all before. But a lot of that…
She had been a ballerina. She played the violin. She was a painter. A sculptor. More things to more people than I can possibly mention here. She had a way of embellishing the mundane with…