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Children Don’t Get Easier, We Just Get Stronger

“This too shall pass.” As mothers, we cling to these words as we desperately hope to make it past whichever parenting stage currently holds us in…

How moms pray: In whispers over the downy heads of sleeping babes, we pray prayers of thanks for the gift of babies and sleep. On the couch late at…

Lord, teach me to number my days. For these days spent mothering young children are few. The long nights and slow days seem infinite, but time…

I stand next to you while the church band plays, amazed that you now tower four inches taller than me. How did you get so tall and your feet so big…

Before I was a mother, I was a human being. A human being with life experiences, passions, fears, talents, hobbies, goals, friends and aspirations…

I hope you always have that look in your eyes. You know the one that tells everyone you mean business, that you are…

It is counterintuitive that chaos would bring order, but that is exactly what working from home has done for me. I know, I know. Kids are…

By 8 a.m., I have already done two loads of laundry, changed sheets from a night time accident, emptied the kitchen sink and filled it again, swept…

The joyful anticipation of the beginning of summer break became tainted with disappointment as we walked home from school that day. My fifth grade…

Dear second (and last) baby, People told your dad and me that your big sister was our “sucker baby”: she was so easygoing, she suckered…