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Dear Mama, This Part of Motherhood is Your Beautiful Mess

A letter to my future self, I am writing to you from the dirty, kid-stained couch that sat in the overly-cluttered living room in the…

The year my twins were born, my mother-in-law gave me the greatest gift. “I want you to have Christmas in your home this year. If you’d…

Family memories have always been important to me. But, marriage and motherhood changed me. Suddenly, I wanted holidays and birthdays and little…

She wanted a family picture of all of us. Everyone was in town celebrating the holidays together and she wanted another picture. We gave her a hard…

I was standing in the sugar-white sand, trying to imprint the sounds and sights and smells of this last day at the beach, when I saw the shadow…

When I was a teenager, I used to love poring over our family’s photo archives. My mom had an entire shelf dedicated to her photo album sets…

My firstborn—the baby who made me a mom to begin with—is 19 years old. She finished her freshman year of college a couple months ago and is home…

This morning I got caught up looking at pictures of my kids when they were babies. I was looking for a picture of the chaos that was my day-to-day…

I’ve never been a baby person. Not when my adorable little brother came home when I was eight-years-old. Not when my sweet baby niece was born when…

I remember spending countless family dinners gathered around my grandma’s kitchen table with cousins, aunts and uncles, and my grandma . . .…