Dear Daughter, You Are Strong and Brave and Capable
Middle school you is becoming self-conscious. That’s normal, we knew this would happen. Honestly, I am impressed it took this…
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Middle school you is becoming self-conscious. That’s normal, we knew this would happen. Honestly, I am impressed it took this…
Continue ReadingShe has been a miracle from the beginning. You see that girl, I never knew if she would make it…
Continue ReadingPeople say it to me often. They say it when she’s loud, when she questions, when she pushes back instead…
Continue ReadingPeople tell me, "She'll come back to you." I hold onto those words like a lifeline, repeating them in my…
Continue Reading“But if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask of God—who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly— and it…
Continue ReadingDear teenage son, I know there's a lot you don't say. There are weights you carry on your ever broadening…
Continue ReadingWatching our daughters grow into who they’re becoming is beautiful and painful at the same time. As a mother to…
Continue ReadingIt started with pain, doubt, and prayers just moments before they laid you in my waiting arms. The cumulation of…
Continue Reading“Hey Mom, can you straighten my hair?” she asks. I gladly oblige. Because it’s not often that she needs—or wants—my…
Continue ReadingThey told me not to blink, but I was too overwhelmed learning how to become a mother. They told me…
Continue ReadingShe looked up at me with the most hopeful, delighted green-blue eyes, “Look what I got, Mama!” And out from…
Continue ReadingI have a vivid memory of tentatively walking toward the little pink sleepers hanging in Nordstrom. I gently lifted one…
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