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Dear Child, Thank You For Slowing Your Busy Mama Down

Thank you for slowing me down. Thank you for making me a mommy. Thank you for making me notice wildflowers and lonely souls. Thank you for making me…

Dear kindergarten teacher, Nine months ago, I walked my firstborn into your kindergarten classroom, uncertain of what the year ahead would…

My son is currently in the first grade. It’s hard to believe my oldest—that 6-pound, 15-ounce baby we brought home from the hospital…

Sometimes I feel like I am missing out on you being little. I spend my days chasing after big brother, washing a load of laundry, and trying to make…

I don’t love motherhood. Not every day. Not every hour. Not every minute. It takes so much out of me. Demands all of me. It is exhausting. It is…

My kid didn’t hit the home run today. This time, my kid was the one who let the ball roll right between his legs with bases loaded in the last…

I’ve got a birthday coming up. The big 3-9. An age that can no longer be classified as “mid-30s” and is one slippery year away from the…

“I love that you can see the football field,” my husband said as we sat at the dinner table. He was looking out the windows to our backyard. The…

I was recently driving to a funeral with my sons. My preschooler kept asking where we were going, and I told him I had a meeting. I didn’t want to…

Last Mother’s Day, my husband made a comment that has really been bugging me. We had a typical Mother’s Day, spent at church and…

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