Helping Your Child Through Separation Anxiety Is Heartbreaking
I could sense it unfolding even though I had personally never experienced it before. The extra long hug. The tightness…
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I could sense it unfolding even though I had personally never experienced it before. The extra long hug. The tightness…
Continue Reading“Mom, people keep telling me to be ready for the drama in middle school, and I don’t like it.” My…
Continue ReadingIt hit me with a poignancy I didn’t expect, as a milestone I never prepared myself for. At 13 years…
Continue ReadingMy current dilemma: how to teach four little girls how to be good sisters when I have no idea what…
Continue ReadingI would have been an amazing boy mom. I’ve been an athlete all my life. I prefer villains to princesses,…
Continue ReadingMy 6-year-old daughter wants to be a soldier. When we heard from the ultrasound tech that we were having…
Continue ReadingOnce upon a time, I was 25 and crying in the car. Weeping, actually, over my just-pregnant belly. There was…
Continue ReadingI am brave. I am beautiful. I am His. Some days it’s an eye roll, the kind only a daughter…
Continue ReadingWhenever anyone says her name wrong, she slowly turns around, puts her hands on her hips, and repeats her name,…
Continue ReadingThis calling isn't easy. Raising daughters. There is beauty and precious moments tucked into seeing our girls grow into the…
Continue ReadingThere are lots of things I know I want to do or be as a mother. One of my biggest…
Continue ReadingYou were my first loves. Never before had I felt anything maternal until you both came into this world. The…
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