By Laura Niebauer Palmer If You Fear Becoming Your Mother, Remember the Cycle Ends With You
How desperately I wish you could read this as you stand at the precipice of parenthood. I know how scared…
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By Jordan Pederson It’s Another Christmas Without You
It's that time of year. Everyone shines a little brighter, everything shimmers a little more. The cooler temps create a…
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When Mom Died, We Had Tea
My mom was never, ever without a cup of Lipton's tea. Like a dear friend, it held her hand, kept…
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By Kimberly Willingham Hubbard When You Stop Running into My Arms, I Pray You Run to Jesus
I love seeing the light in my little girl’s eyes when I pick her up from school at the end…
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By Lyndsay Zadnik My Mother Raised Me To Go On Without Her
“The kids are spending the night at Grandma’s, and I’m eyeballs deep in Fritos while catching up on all my…
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By Samantha Koellhoffer I’m Giving My Daughter Space To Define Her Adoption
I cracked a joke, and as I walked from the table, I heard her mutter to her friends, “Good thing…
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My Sister and I Return To Childhood To Grieve Our Mother
“Grief is itself a medicine,” William Cowper. Everyone processes grief differently. The day after our mother’s death, my sister and…
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By Carolyn Moore Publix Holiday Ad Nails It: You Never Outgrow Needing Your Mom
The first time I ever cooked Thanksgiving dinner on my own, my mom was several hundred miles away. I was…
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Here In the Struggle of Motherhood Are Tender Moments I’m Afraid to Miss
I didn’t realize the fear I would feel going into the operating room. My hands trembled and felt as if…
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By Neely Richer Choose to Be a Mother, Not a Martyr
There is a trend in motherhood right now . . . maybe it’s happened for a long time, but now…
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Being a Mom of Grown Children Is Beautiful Too
I have always been one of those people who want to do something: take a class in documentary filmmaking, make…
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I Wish I Had the Chance to Be Friends with My Mom
Dear Mom, I never got the chance to appreciate you as a mother. There was so much life still to…
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