I Don’t Know How to Be a Mom of Teens, but I’m Learning
I’m a card-carrying baby person. You know the type—the kind of mom who turns into a cooing heap of melty-hearted…
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I’m a card-carrying baby person. You know the type—the kind of mom who turns into a cooing heap of melty-hearted…
Continue ReadingFor these precious and fleeting few years of her life, I am my daughter’s best friend. The one who makes…
Continue ReadingI’d never heard of apartment sofas until last month, probably because I had hand-me-down living room furniture when I was…
Continue ReadingAs I sat outside Walmart watching my husband of nearly 16 years walk in with my 9-year-old daughter to buy…
Continue ReadingMy 6-year-old daughter wants to be a soldier. When we heard from the ultrasound tech that we were having…
Continue ReadingDear daughter, I know sometimes you wonder if you’ll ever do normal things without me hovering over you. Double and…
Continue ReadingEvery May, I wrestle with, what is for me, the most highly fraught holiday of the year—Mother’s Day. As I…
Continue ReadingMy daughter and I were chatting about her day when she nonchalantly said, “I didn’t get invited to my friend’s…
Continue Reading“You’re gonna miss this one day,” she said. “It all goes by so fast. It’s just a season, and in…
Continue ReadingYou were born at 5:37 p.m., and I held you from my bed in the labor and delivery room for…
Continue ReadingJust before dawn I wake, and my first thought is, She’s not here. Then I hear the familiar creak of…
Continue ReadingI don’t know what I expected, exactly. But I didn’t expect you to smile at me and say sweetly, “Thanks,…
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