I can’t sleep. Yesterday morning was pretty typical — we scurried to get ready, scurried out the door, scurried out of the car into backpacks and lunch boxes and over the crosswalk to school. When Sophie, Annabelle and I arrived, it was the typical rush of teachers opening doors in the carpool lane (it always […]

Tomorrow is the first day of school. Both girls are fast asleep — took baths, accepted earlier-than-summer bedtimes without complaint. The backpacks are labeled, I cut the tags off the first-day-of-school outfits. Now there’s nothing left to do but freak out. I’m good at that. Without meaning to (I was only looking for the link, and […]