I Still Need My Mom
I used to think there would come a day when I would not need my mother so much. Not because…
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I used to think there would come a day when I would not need my mother so much. Not because…
Continue ReadingThe deeper I grow into motherhood, the more I see that it was never about the moments I once thought…
Continue ReadingFor a long time, I assumed a mom always knew exactly what to say to her children in every possible…
Continue ReadingMotherhood today is a kind of exhaustion that sleep can’t touch. One that self-care can’t fix. It’s the exhaustion of…
Continue ReadingShe stands in the kitchen, hands trembling over the sink, tears she cannot let fall pressing behind her eyes. The…
Continue ReadingThe night my daughter woke up screaming at 3 a.m., I knew something was wrong. Her cry wasn’t the half-asleep…
Continue ReadingThe rhythm of childhood for my children has always moved to a different tempo. While other kids grew up to…
Continue ReadingBefore the sun rises, she is already moving. The house is still, the world asleep, yet her hands are already…
Continue ReadingAll around the house: Size 10 sneakers, oversized hoodies, half-full water bottles, and blunt little hairs all over the sink.…
Continue ReadingWhen people ask how I’m doing, I’ve started saying, “We’re thriving… in a chaotic, heavily-caffeinated, emotionally-unraveling kind of way.” It’s…
Continue ReadingWhen you cry, I cry with you When you stumble, I stumble with you. Every hurt you carry, every fear,…
Continue ReadingTo all the non-festive moms out there: I see you. It’s hard to find you among a sea of holiday…
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