Moms Worry, It’s Just What We Do
I glanced at my lit-up phone and smiled. My mom, who lived a few states away, had sent an all-too-familiar…
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I glanced at my lit-up phone and smiled. My mom, who lived a few states away, had sent an all-too-familiar…
Continue ReadingIt seems like yesterday we were bringing you home from the hospital. Back then, we were new parents, clueless but…
Continue ReadingI’m standing in the shower rinsing the conditioner out of my hair with a toddler babbling at my feet, running…
Continue ReadingThree is our magic number. It always has been. It feels like the perfect number of kids for us. Everyone…
Continue ReadingFor the last sixteen months of her life, I was one of my mother’s primary caregivers, and now that she’s…
Continue ReadingHe’s 13. I could stop there, and most parents would simply shake their heads, give me a look of sympathy,…
Continue ReadingI want to tell you the story of a little boy who came to live with me when he was…
Continue ReadingDear husband, let me introduce you to your wife, insomnia edition. You see me not sleeping. You see me “playing”…
Continue ReadingIn February, you will have been gone a year. How is that right? It was just yesterday. I still remember…
Continue ReadingThree weeks before Easter, my family and I stood in the hallway talking to a team of doctors whom we…
Continue ReadingIt was a Wednesday morning when I sat around a table with a group of mamas I had just recently…
Continue ReadingI read somewhere the other day that when a child is born, a parent is too. In my first few…
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