About

Nothing changes you like having kids. And nothing can prepare you for it.

I look at photos of my self ‘BB’ (before babies) and I marvel how different life was like just two short years ago. Traveling through life there were many defining moments… leaving home for college in New York, graduating and making it on my own, getting married. But none of it compared to February 22, 2008. The day Lily and Logan left the womb and entered the world.

My life is full of many joys, but it is also full of strife. I’m constantly trying to come to peace with who I am now, to enjoy life even when it’s full of tantrums and tears, to balance work, marriage and kids and to somehow find a little time for me. (That part always gets shafted.)

Strangers always ask me how I do it. They see me frantic at the playground running back and forth between trying to prevent Logan from walking off the top of the slide and stopping Lily from drinking out a random left behind soda can. They see me at the grocery store, one toddler in the front of the cart grabbing salad dressing from the shelf and the other in the back tossing stuff out of the cart onto the ground. They see me frazzled, near tears, with banana in my hair, making silly faces, blowing kisses and doling out snacks.

And when they ask I just have to respond, “I just do it.” Simply because I have no choice and because I wouldn’t want it any other way. This is the second act of my life, and Take Two is all about journaling the journey.