My Daughter is Fierce and I Couldn’t Love Her More
Whenever anyone says her name wrong, she slowly turns around, puts her hands on her hips, and repeats her name,…
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Kids
By Samantha Krieger Dear Son, Don’t Ever Lose Your Helping Heart
When you carried two gallons of milk on our way out the door at Aldi, I smiled. You insisted to…
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By Catherine Rider I Cherish These Quiet Mornings
My favorite part of the day is that magical time before darkness gives way to the dawn. In those early…
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By Anna-Louise Osborne Goodbye To the Preschool Years
For me, personally, I feel as though this is the first gut-wrenching string I’m letting go of with my little…
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By Leslie Means Dear Tween, I Could Not Love You More
I got into an argument with my tween. This happens between us—which makes sense as she’s so much like me.…
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By Stephanie Kramm There’s Nothing Better Than Being Your Mother
Four times I’ve lifted brand new slippery babies up to my chest after bringing them into this big world. Four…
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By Danielle Duncan I Will Carry These Moments in My Heart Forever
They say the days are long and the years are short. I never truly understood this saying until one day…
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By Laura Niebauer Palmer 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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By Brea Schmidt Here We Are in the Middle Stage of Parenting
If you need me, I’ll be over here in those "middle" parenting years. You know, that stage the internet rarely…
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By Laura Costea You Keep Growing Up, No Matter What I Do
I tried to slow you down–my fourth baby. I postponed swim lessons for the big kids, I held back from…
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Dear Son, Will I Know You Tomorrow?
When you were a newborn, I knew you as well as it’s possible to know another human being. I was…
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By Nicole Lasley I’m Not Ready For You To Grow Up
You took a shower today. Daddy let you wash your hair and scrub your body. You lathered and rinsed and…
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