By Eva Des Lauriers He Grows Up a Little More Every Day and I’m Trying To Keep Calm
It started with a backpack. Christmas morning his eyes grew wide and bright as he pulled this, his first backpack,…
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By Sina Steele Mama In the Still, Small Hours
I can’t remember the last time I slept through the night. Like I actually can’t remember. I know that…
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By Brea Schmidt 5 Things I Say To My Kids That Change Our Dynamic at Home
In my three-kids-in-six-years tenure as a mom, it has felt like I’m in an ongoing game of Tetris: getting dealt a…
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By Maralee Bradley To the Lady Clutching Her Pearls When My Toddler Used an Anatomically Correct Term
Hello ma'am, I could tell how disturbed you were when my little son fell off the swing and loudly proclaimed…
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By Carolyn Moore Dear Kate, You Make It Look So Easy, But You Don’t Have To
Dear Kate, Congratulations! You have a new baby boy, by all accounts, a healthy, perfect addition to your brand new…
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Motherhood is the Most Beautiful Kind of Heartache
It’s 11:57 p.m. My head hits the pillow and your cries hit the monitor. It’s a different night, but the…
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By Kathryn Stone You Are My Last, Sweet Baby
You are my last. My last scent of baby . . . my last newborn onesie . . . my…
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By Bailey Koch My Son Has a Seizure Disorder—and I Didn’t Know
Hey, momma. Do you know the feeling? You know . . . that I should have been able to protect…
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By Kathryn Malherbe And Then There Was You
I always thought the important things in life were being hard-working and successful at my job. And then there was you.…
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By Ginger Hughes This Mama Didn’t Know It Would Be The Last Time
I didn’t know lying there in that hotel room bed, the sound of the ocean blowing through the opened door,…
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By Whitney Fleming What It’s Really Like to Live in a House With Teen Girls
Since first announcing I was pregnant with twin girls 14 years ago, the comments poured in from strangers. “Wait until…
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By Abbie Dunlap These Are a Few of My Favorite Things
The sound of little feet slapping the wood floors. The way your dad's laugh echoes down the stairs from your…
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