What if Your Mom Guilt Is a Lie?
Being a perfect mom is simply an unrealistic expectation. What does a “perfect mom” even mean?!? We cannot always be…
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Being a perfect mom is simply an unrealistic expectation. What does a “perfect mom” even mean?!? We cannot always be…
Continue ReadingAs a little girl, I used to watch the women in the Miss America pageant with their sequined ball gowns…
Continue ReadingMy friends had a good marriage. They worked at it, shuffling shifts at work, which often meant they saw one another…
Continue ReadingYou don’t know me. We’ve never met but living in a small town, we probably know some of the same…
Continue ReadingDear Teachers of my Children: Thank you for choosing teaching as an occupation. Because there are people like you willing…
Continue ReadingHey Mama. Come down here, yep, right.down.here. Stand up, shake it off, and walk down judgement hill. Even if its…
Continue ReadingTo my 12 remaining embryos, The day we learned there were 14 of you, we instantly knew our story of…
Continue ReadingI believe in God, in part, because bad things happen to good people. Yes, you read my words right. I…
Continue Reading“We get to go to Heaven right now?” My two-year-old looked up at me, his eyes wide with a mix…
Continue ReadingWhen my husband and I met, I was not a faithful church goer. Let’s be honest…I was not a faithful…
Continue ReadingI am lightly involved in a Facebook group for moms. And when I say "lightly," I mean that I probably…
Continue ReadingThreenagers are the perfect term for the post terrible-twos child. There's the attitude and the insistence of independence without any…
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