Doodle

Dear Caroline, Today you are sixteen. Sweet sixteen. Except sweet isn't really your thing because you've always been a little more salty than sweet and I mean that in all the best ways. First thing this morning you'll go take your driver's test so you can go get your license on Monday morning and that's just one more step you'll take towards adulthood while I sit here and try to figure out Read More

Dear Caroline, Today you are fifteen. What on earth? Later this morning we will brave the atrocity known as the DPS office and bring in seventy-eight different pieces of paperwork and sixty-four different forms of identification so that you can get your learner's permit and officially start getting behind the wheel of a car. Which is so weird considering that you looked just like this Read More

So this little nugget started high school yesterday. Untitled from Big Mama on Vimeo. Which is so weird since it feels like that video I filmed the night before she started Kindergarten was like two years ago. So much has changed, except the fact that she still brings her lunch to school every day. She has never one time fallen for my suggestion that she might like the cafeteria food if Read More

Dear Caroline, Today you are fourteen. I don't even know how we got here so fast. The last fourteen years have been a whirlwind of pacifiers, diapers and sleepless nights that led to Finding Nemo lunch boxes, pigtails, and losing your first tooth that brought us to sleepovers, soccer games and braces on your teeth. Now here we are on the precipice of high school and although I keep trying to Read More