I’m a Mom With Helping Hands
“Mom, can you open it?” My daughter held out a container of mandarin oranges to me from across the kitchen counter. “Sure,” I answered,…
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Friendship is Easy With You
You know what I love? Friends who don’t make this friend thing complicated. People who don’t use the “you find out who your friends…
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Be the Friend You Want to Have
Friendship that is like family doesn’t happen overnight. Jennifer Garner posted a quote the other day that said, “The day you plant the seed is…
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Play Really is the Work of Childhood
As I sit here, I am listening to my older daughter color by herself in another room. Of all of the sounds of young motherhood, the self-chatter…
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I’ll Always Be Your Glue
To my sweet, oftentimes-needy newborn, I am writing this to you as you lay swaddled tightly on my chest. Every time I put you down you let out a…
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The Joy in Forgetting Time With You
You see the soft white bristles just poking from the pillow’s edge. “A feather, give it a pull,” I say, and your eyebrows raise with the…
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This Too Shall Pass
My son had colic as a newborn. He wasn’t “fussy,” there wasn’t a “witching hour,” he simply hated life outside the womb and was…
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We Mother By Faith
Yes, I read those prenatal books. A whole stack of them. Some were hand-me-downs from friends and others I checked out of the library. I read the…
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You’ll Always Love Your Kids, But Sometimes You Won’t Like Them Very Much
When I was three months pregnant with my first child, after a particularly difficult day with someone else’s rowdy toddler, I called my mom in a…
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He Took the Picture—and I Hated it
He took the picture, just like I always ask (OK, nag) him to. My toddler and I were reading books in bed, his head on my shoulder and arms…
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