Grown Children, Motherhood, Teen
To the Emotional Mom of a High School Senior, Enjoy It
Dear moms of high school seniors, I see your posts on social media, and I sense your excitement, mixed with anxiety and a bit of sadness (if we are…
Continue ReadingFriendship, Living, Motherhood
I Know My Friends Aren’t Bothered by My Messy House, but I Am
My house screams at me. It screams to clear off the kitchen counters, to put away the clean clothes, to organize the shoe collection in our entry, to…
Continue ReadingI’ll Never Be Ready for My Son To Let Go of Me
The arts-and-crafts tote overflowed with cylinders of petrified Play-Doh, crispy-bristled paintbrushes, and Elmer’s glue bottles with clogged…
Continue ReadingDear Preschool Teachers, I’m Going to Miss You So Much
Dear preschool teachers, There’s just no other way to say this— I’m going to miss you so much. You are the first adults outside of our family…
Continue ReadingA Medical Diagnosis Challenges a Marriage
It is no secret now that Albert Pujols and his wife have announced their divorce shortly after she had surgery to remove a brain tumor. As a breast…
Continue ReadingDon’t Let Anyone Rush You, Mama
From the moment our children are born, other people make it challenging to stay in the present moment—they start asking questions that look forward…
Continue ReadingThere Are a Million Reasons Being a Mom Is Hard
Being a mom is hard. The endless messes to clean up. The sleepless nights and sticky fingers touching everywhere. The meal prep, the nap…
Continue ReadingYou Are So Much More than the Doubts in Your Head
Keep pushing. Push through every doubt the enemy instills in your mind. Push through the depression. Push through the worrisome moments. Push…
Continue ReadingDear Grandmother, I’m Not Ready to Lose You
I had a visit from my grandmother the other day. It wasn’t a regular sit on the porch with a cup of tea kind of visit. It was more of an “I…
Continue ReadingMotherhood Is Hard Because You’re Doing It Right
Before having children, I had a very romanticized idea of motherhood. Sure, I knew it would be hard. But I visualized the beautiful moments ahead:…
Continue ReadingJust the Three of Us
On the eve of my daughter’s seventh birthday, I leaned against her doorway watching her sleep so peacefully. I roamed around my home admiring her…
Continue ReadingDear Child, God Sees All of You—And So Do I
Math has always come easily to him. Even from the beginning stages when we counted wooden blocks on the living room floor, the numbers just came to…
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