By Laura Niebauer Palmer If You Fear Becoming Your Mother, Remember the Cycle Ends With You
How desperately I wish you could read this as you stand at the precipice of parenthood. I know how scared…
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Laura Niebauer Palmer
We’re Modeling Marriage For Our Kids
This is eight years. A picture taken in the few minutes of pre-dawn quiet before toddler chaos ensues. A few…
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The Soup Pot
In my kitchen sits a soup pot. It’s great for when I make soups, which if I’m being honest is…
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There Are No Mother’s Day Cards For Broken Relationships
Every May, I wrestle with, what is for me, the most highly fraught holiday of the year—Mother’s Day. As I…
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You’re a Mother, Not a Martyr
In front of me in line, stood a mother and her toddler, who was doing all the things young children…
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Some Say I Lost My Baby, But I Know Exactly Where You Are
To my Poppy, Even though we never met I can clearly picture you. I can see my dimples in your…
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God Gave Me a Child Who Tests Me
On a recent Sunday, my husband, son, and I headed to a friend’s house under the guise of watching football.…
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Sometimes We Only Need To Know He’s Near
Naptime—the sacred, uninterrupted period of time when I can focus on accomplishing at least some of my to-do list. Usually…
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We Hang a Christmas Ornament For the Child Who’ll Never See it
There it sat on the doorstep, an innocuous, small, brown box holding something so small yet so emotionally heavy. Inside…
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I Want My Son To Take Pride in His Heritage
I don’t know how many times I’ve been asked the same question, THE question. The one I have grown accustomed…
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The Moment We Saw Him We Knew He Was Meant To Be Our Son
Recently I was posed a question: “How in your life have you experienced the grace of God?” Immediately, my heart…
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