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One Day You Won’t Need Me Like This, But Right Now, You Still Do

I lay here typing this with one hand because you’ve fallen asleep holding my hand, and I can’t bring myself to take it back just yet.…

Fall is upon us! For many, including me, autumn is a time for traditions: apple picking, pumpkin patches, hot apple cider with friends on a hayride,…

I slept on my teenage daughter’s bedroom floor last night. It wasn’t a slumber party. It was just all I could do. She’d gone to bed…

Behold the 14-year-old. Starting to spread her wings. Starting to turn her gaze outward from the walls of this house onto the great big world.…

Dear mama, If you thought you had it easy with your first, just let me warn you, there’s more to come. This isn’t an attempt to discourage from…

The moment my third child was born, I knew I wanted a fourth. That statement still surprises even me. Early in our marriage, I was quite firm in my…

To my drag-along child, To the one who gets dragged from place to place because of your youngest sibling status in the family. To the one who gets…

Just short of nine months after I married my high school sweetheart, we were welcoming our first child into the world. I had just turned 25, we had…

I hear it at least once a week–usually from a meme on social media. Someone joking that “at least I kept the kids alive.” While other moms…

In the silence of the morning, before anyone else is awake, it’s just you and me. Your gentle kicks wake me up. I feel you. I poke back, initiating…

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