By Her View From Home What’s the Mark of a Great Mom? An Obituary Like Katy Lynn McDonald’s.
I'm pretty sure Katy Lynn McDonald is smirking in her obituary photo. And after reading the words printed alongside her…
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By Whitney Fleming Everything I Learned About Being a Mother I Learned From My Mom
My mom doesn't live close by. She lives about 600 miles away and comes by airplane, yet somehow she is…
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By Kiley Hillner May We Be Mothers Like Mary
My grandfather made us a wooden nativity ornament set the first year my husband and I got married and I’ve…
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I’m Grieving the Mother I Deserved While Loving the One I Was Given
My mother is bipolar. Not as a punchline to a joke, but genuinely, medically diagnosed as bipolar. She has been…
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By Chelsea Ohlemiller I See My Mother in the Mirror
My nose. I’ve always hated my nose. Let’s be honest, I’ve hated a lot of my body over the years.…
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By Mikala Albertson As a Mom, Sometimes I Say No When My Heart Longs to Say Yes
Sometimes I say NO . . . though my heart longs to say YES. Like the other day—my kindergartener lost…
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The Retail Worker You Just Yelled At Could Be My Teenager
Last night, I made a run to Target at 8:30 p.m. I needed to pick up a few things for…
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By Kayla Runkel Dear Mom, I’ll Always Be Your Baby…Even When I Have My Own
Dear Mom, Today I came home from the hospital with my brand-new baby boy. As my weak postpartum body hobbled…
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By Angela Anagnost-Repke We Don’t Take Thanksgiving—Or Mom—For Granted Anymore
Five days after my mom’s chemo, my brother, Deno, flew home to Michigan. We were going to celebrate an early…
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By Celeste Yvonne Frozen 2 Depicts the Beautiful Bond Between a Mother and Her Children—And it Made This Mama Cry
Last night I found myself in a very hard spot of parenting. I felt overwhelmed and defeated. I had been…
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Know What Mom Really Wants For Christmas This Year? A Gift From the Heart.
When we were growing up, every time we kids asked our mom what she wanted for Christmas, her standard reply…
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By Christie Lynn No Amount of Time Will Fix the Fact That My Mom Isn’t Here
Tomorrow is going to be seven years since my mom has been gone. Saying that out loud seems so surreal…
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