One Day, You’ll Be Grown
One day, you'll stop sneaking into my room for late-night snuggles on a school night. She won't need me to…
Continue ReadingOne day, you'll stop sneaking into my room for late-night snuggles on a school night. She won't need me to…
Continue ReadingDear Charlie, It all started with a positive pregnancy test in October of 2018. The fear I felt was unlike…
Continue ReadingBeing irrelevant to my teenager daughter sounds amusing and inconsequential. Becoming irrelevant is different. It’s heartbreaking. The agonizing process of losing…
Continue ReadingI lay here typing this with one hand because you've fallen asleep holding my hand, and I can't bring myself…
Continue ReadingFall is upon us! For many, including me, autumn is a time for traditions: apple picking, pumpkin patches, hot apple…
Continue ReadingI slept on my teenage daughter's bedroom floor last night. It wasn't a slumber party. It was just all I…
Continue ReadingBehold the 14-year-old. Starting to spread her wings. Starting to turn her gaze outward from the walls of this house…
Continue ReadingDear mama, If you thought you had it easy with your first, just let me warn you, there’s more to…
Continue ReadingThe moment my third child was born, I knew I wanted a fourth. That statement still surprises even me. Early…
Continue ReadingTo my drag-along child, To the one who gets dragged from place to place because of your youngest sibling status…
Continue ReadingJust short of nine months after I married my high school sweetheart, we were welcoming our first child into the…
Continue ReadingI hear it at least once a week–usually from a meme on social media. Someone joking that “at least I…
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