Getting through Christmas without Your Kids
When you are divorced, one of the hardest kinds of loneliness as a mother is being without your children for…
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This Simple Life Is Beautiful
We might not have the newest electronics. Our kids might have to work to earn that electric scooter. We might…
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By Vicki Bahr Next Year, Christmas Will Be Perfect
Now that I’m older, my head is understandably full of memories and wish-i-could-go-backs, and I sadly realize that I spent…
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By Megan Kewaza No One on Earth Loves You More than Your Mother
When you cry, I cry with you When you stumble, I stumble with you. Every hurt you carry, every fear,…
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By Ashley Butler The Weight of Always Being “On”
There’s a kind of exhaustion sleep can’t fix. The kind that builds quietly from being needed all the time. It’s…
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By Maria Lockard To All the Non-Festive Moms: I See You
To all the non-festive moms out there: I see you. It’s hard to find you among a sea of holiday…
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By Whitney Akin There’s an Ordinary Beauty to These Middle Years with Kids
“Just wait—before you know it, they’ll be all grown up!” I heard this countless times when my three children were…
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Mom Was the Magic of Christmas
As I've gotten older, I've come to realize my mom was the true magic of Christmas. Throughout my childhood, she…
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By Aimee C. Trafton She May be In Heaven, but I Still Have Coffee with My Mom
I do not understand how people can get through life without coffee. For me, it is fuel, it gives me…
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I Thought I’d Be Happy When No One Believed in the Elf Anymore
My giant hanging basket of petunias had fallen from the tiny hook on the porch for what must have been…
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By Shannon Whitmore I Just Want One More Christmas
I might have missed my son’s last Christmas with Santa. I was there, and I watched it happen, but it…
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To the Moms Who Love Quiet
I’ve always been the quiet one. The listener. The observer. The one who never minded silence and didn’t feel the…
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