Author Archives: Sarahagerty

Forks clanked noisily to their plates as bare feet scampered across the floor and out the door, their mouths too full with food to squeal. The moment we’d been awaiting for 10 days finally happened. The nest we’d been fostering, unknowingly for some time, now housed a family. The incubation period was over, our robin’s eggs had [...]

“Remember when we would walk to the store to buy bananas, Daddy, and sometimes avocados!?” she said excitedly. She might as well have been saying “remember when those days we rode a whale in the ocean together.” These golden moments of childhood were scrap-booked in her memory. The six weeks we spent in Uganda adopting our [...]

“I’m embarrassed mommy.” She was five when she said it. “When  I looked in the mirror just now, satan told me I was ugly,” she replied when I pressed. This was not a conversation we’d had before and it came way too early, in my book. I wasn’t sure whether to feel relief that she was able [...]

We swapped talents. I rolled up my sleeves, moved furniture, created files and made labels. She pulled out her stopwatch, recorded splits and weekly re-calibrated my plan to match my goal. I organized and she coached. She needed simplicity and I wanted to win a race. That summer training pushed my physical limits to capacity. Each day [...]

I pushed through the hanging clothes in my closet, in search of a gift I had stowed away, when I spotted it. An only semi-deflated pink, polka-dot balloon, still fighting for its life. Must be from a September birthday celebration, I thought, and quickly dismissed it. My lovers-of-all-that-is-pink both had their birthdays in September. This [...]