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Faith, Grief, Loss
December 15, 2019
6 Minute Read

Mom Wouldn’t Want Me To Just Survive Christmas—She’d Tell Me To Embrace the Joy

To love Christmastime is to love my momma. Everything bright. Everything sweet. Everything happy. She was the embodiment of it all. Her childlike…

Grown Children, Motherhood
December 14, 2019
3 Minute Read

Dear Mom, I Understand Everything Now

Dear Mom, There is so much I didn’t understand back then, but now I do. I never understood why sometimes you would look at me for the longest time.…

Grown Children, Motherhood
December 14, 2019
7 Minute Read

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 my whole life though we didn’t…

Cancer, Grief
December 13, 2019
6 Minute Read

Getting Through the Holidays as a Motherless Daughter

Before my mother died but when she was very sick, I was dropping my son off at daycare. When we arrived, there was another little boy who had just…

Baby, Grown Children, Motherhood
December 4, 2019
3 Minute Read

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 in the front door, there you were,…

Grief
November 21, 2019
3 Minute Read

Did My Mom Know How Much I Loved Her?

She’s gone. You ache for her, but you will no longer be blessed by her presence. She’s dead, and a piece of you is dead, too. She slipped away…

Grief
November 20, 2019
3 Minute Read

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 sometimes. How can it be that seven years can…

Grief, Grown Children
November 18, 2019
4 Minute Read

I Didn’t Expect To Be Mothering My Mother

It’s a bizarre thing to mother your mother. I constantly worry if she is sad, if she feels lonely, and if she will reach out if her heart aches…

Grief
November 12, 2019
9 Minute Read

Dear Mom, You’re Gone So a Part of Me is, Too

On April 25, 2018, my world imploded and I’m still living in the aftershock. Every day since has felt like blindly wandering through ash and…

Marriage
November 10, 2019
3 Minute Read

Dear Mother-in-Law, This is What I Desperately Need From You

Dear mother-in-law, You are also a daughter-in-law, am I right? Does that help you at all understand my perspective? …

Mother

Mom Wouldn’t Want Me To Just Survive Christmas—She’d Tell Me To Embrace the Joy

Dear Mom, I Understand Everything Now

I’m Grieving the Mother I Deserved While Loving the One I Was Given

Getting Through the Holidays as a Motherless Daughter

Dear Mom, I’ll Always Be Your Baby…Even When I Have My Own

Did My Mom Know How Much I Loved Her?

No Amount of Time Will Fix the Fact That My Mom Isn’t Here

I Didn’t Expect To Be Mothering My Mother

Dear Mom, You’re Gone So a Part of Me is, Too

Dear Mother-in-Law, This is What I Desperately Need From You

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