Milestones

The Number One Fertilizer?

ByAbby Quillen June 20, 2011August 13, 2016

I’m acutely aware that my son’s childhood is passing rapidly. Soon he won’t fit in my arms. He’ll stop running around the house squealing, “I love you, Mama.” Hair will sprout on his toes. So birthdays and milestones can be bittersweet. Except potty training. Saying goodbye to diapers has brought only joy, exultation, and delight…

ByAbby Quillen November 10, 2009

The ducks are flying low, black vees swooping between the trees. “Ga ga,” Ezra calls as they pass. He’s toddling along beside me. He weaves into a neighbor’s yard, and I reach for his hand to veer him back onto the sidewalk Ezra took his first solo steps this week at seventeen months old. Most…