To Your Kids You Are Perfect—Let That Be Enough
I've always struggled with confidence. Ever since I was little, I remember being insecure about how I looked. I wasn't…
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I've always struggled with confidence. Ever since I was little, I remember being insecure about how I looked. I wasn't…
Continue ReadingThey used to line up to watch me leave. Even if I was just running to the store for 10…
Continue Reading"Can we just be forever friends?" I recently asked two friends that question. It was said in jest as we…
Continue ReadingYou may not love it, Mama, but I do. I see the way you look at yourself in the mirror,…
Continue ReadingI am enrolled in the school of motherhood. This is a strange place to be because every mom wants to…
Continue ReadingI’m sorry I’m not the “fun” mom. I’m sorry I don’t let you go to just anyone’s house. I’m sorry…
Continue ReadingYou came into our room during the wee hours of the morning. You’d had a bad dream and wanted your…
Continue ReadingIt’s a scenario that is entirely universal and yet wholly isolating—a mother, shielding herself from the chaos of her home,…
Continue ReadingI know it's hard, this motherhood thing. You want to get it right. Oh, you want to get it SO…
Continue ReadingIt’s 2:30 in the morning, and I should be sleeping. But, I can’t. If I’m being honest, a lot of…
Continue ReadingGrief. . . emptiness. . . depression. . . anxiety. . . those are a few of the words I…
Continue ReadingMy freshman daughter came home from school yesterday and let me know that her teacher pulled her aside. “She wants…
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