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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…

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 had been walking my 1-year-old daughter Hailey in her stroller on a chilly October morning while listening to my favorite playlist. I was enjoying…

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…

Two months ago, I lost my mom. She was my best friend and has always been my person in life. You really can’t prepare yourself for something…

There are some mothers and daughters who are inseparable, like best friends. Super supportive, encouraging, love to spend a lot of time together,…

Sometimes I have to remind myself to breathe. I have to take myself out of that moment. The one from two years ago when I lost my mother. The moment…