by Deborah Quinn | Nov 17, 2013 | aging, birth, family, HGH, Kids, NaBloPoMo, Parenting, preemies
On the 18th of November, I officially become the mother of a teenager. Which seems weird because I’m only 25. And it’s doubly weird because in some bizarre harmonic convergence, the 17th of November is officially “World Prematurity Day,” a day...
by Deborah Quinn | Sep 25, 2013 | birth, expat, family, growing up, Kids, Parenting, preemies
It happened like someone had flipped on a switch. At one point there was a boy who wanted to tell me everything and who thought that facebook was stupid and his parents were pretty cool. And then, this summer, Liam became a pre-teen. He’s always been precocious...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 22, 2013 | Children, growing up, HGH, Kids, Parenting, preemies
Another post from the archives (I’ve got biiig archives…wanna come over and see them sometime?). This post is from 2010, when we first started Liam on HGH. He’s been doing these shots now for three years, more or less, and still hates them. But...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 18, 2012 | growing up, Kids, legos, Parenting, preemies
If you’re a person who writes a blog and if that blog should talk about your children if you have them (or your pets if you don’t, although really it’s about the same thing, isn’t it?), then the occasion of a birthday – theirs or yours...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 21, 2012 | birth, Books, Children, family, growing up, Kids, preemies
Buzz Bissinger wrote the book Friday Night Lights, which got made into a movie and then a television show that introduced us to Taylor Kitsch, in the role of Tim Riggins. For that reason alone, we all owe Buzz a debt of gratitude and should buy his latest book, a...
by Deborah Quinn | Jul 13, 2011 | birth, Children, preemies, wordless wednesday
So I know there aren’t supposed to be words, but without words, you won’t know what I’m holding: these are the diapers we used on Liam when he was first born. I’d forgotten that I’d saved a few of these and they surfaced when I was...
