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I’m So Lucky To Call My Mom My Best Friend

Consider yourself lucky when you don’t have to look for a best friend, but it naturally happens—because she’s your mom. My mom has always been…

This is a story of motherhood, a story about what it’s like to be sitting on the other side of the glass. I sit perched on my seat at the midwifery…

I stare at myself in the mirror and wonder if being a stay-at-home mom is all I’m cut out to be. Am I doing it right? Does my husband resent…

To my strong-willed daughter, Before you were born, I pictured having a daughter. I pictured it being sweet and tender, sharing the same humor. I…

There she sat in the back seat, sobbing. I could tell the kind of tears that flowed down her cheek. It was grief. She missed her. My mother. Her…

I hear the familiar ringtone coming from my computer. My daughter knows it, too. “Mimmie!” she shouts. Her grandparents live across the country,…

I am a grown orphan . . . or at least that’s how it feels. I know technically the definition of an orphan is a person, specifically a child,…

Have you ever noticed how much our lives intertwine with our mothers’? Every detail, every event, every emotion, every milestone. Our mothers…

My mom was an essential, treasured part of my early motherhood. This bond took root in my own childhood as I was the grateful recipient of and…

Single motherhood is running alongside the bike. Although it feels so hard to keep up with a moving bike on foot, all your child remembers is…