by Tricia Lott Williford | Apr 8, 2020 | All Boy, Archives of Tuck and Ty, For Real?, I Am Ridiculous, Life As A Mom, Tyler
It’s been more than a decade since this Good Friday situation, the day Baby Tyler locked Toddler Tucker and me in a second story bedroom for an hour and a half, and our rescue involved three strangers, three firemen, a fire truck, three police officers, several...
by Tricia Lott Williford | Apr 2, 2020 | Archives of Tuck and Ty, For Real?, Let's Pretend We're Normal, Life As A Mom, My Faith, My Family, Parenting, We Are A Tricycle, You Can Do This
Parents of Preschoolers and Toddlers, this season is the real deal, isn’t it? You are in the t-r-e-n-c-h-e-s. When my guys were preschoolers, I had to have them out the door by 9:00am, or the house would surely crumble around us. I was sure of it, and my...
by Tricia Lott Williford | Jul 29, 2019 | Archives of Tuck and Ty, Courage, Deep Sadness, Life As A Mom, Life Comes Back, Love Comes Back, My Family, Tyler, You Can Do This
“Mom, I wish you had some kind of record of the things I said when I was little.” The incredulous look on my face may have been apparent to him, and I didn’t mind. I wasn’t hiding it. “Tyler, are you kidding me right now?”...
by Tricia Lott Williford | Jun 28, 2018 | Archives of Tuck and Ty, I Am Ridiculous, Life As A Mom, Remembering
Throwing it back to a post from 2008,when my babies were two and almost-one, I was sleepless and underfed, Robb and I were married and sweetly naive, and I was beginning my track record of forever disqualifying myself for Mother of the Year. At least some things...
by Tricia Lott Williford | Mar 29, 2017 | Archives of Tuck and Ty, Life As A Mom, Parenting, Quotables
This conversation happened on a Sunday morning nearly a decade ago. This couple sat near us, and I met them during the ‘meet-n-greet.’ Back then, little conversations like this one were a highlight of my morning, back in the days before I became an...
by Tricia Lott Williford | Sep 23, 2015 | All Boy, Archives of Tuck and Ty, Remembering, Robb
I found this little ditty hiding in the archives. Look at this very sweet story. * * * Robb was traveling. Let’s start there. After dinner and playtime at Chick Fil A, showers (which are no longer baths and also new evidence God’s goodness in my life), we...