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Honestly? I Hate This.

“Honestly, I hate this, too.” Those were the words I typed in my email to my homeroom advisee today. It has taken three weeks but she has…

Dear husband, Thank you for putting out fires over the phone. These days are hard. I am home all day, every day with the kids, 24/7 with…

I’m angry. I feel like things never stop piling up. The laundry. The housework. The forms, homework and fundraisers. The bellies that need fed. My…

It’s OK, momma. It’s OK to lock yourself in the bathroom and cry on the floor when it’s all just too much. It’s OK to go for a walk when you…

The other night I broke down in my husband’s arms and told him that sometimes I just wanted to run away and never look back. I love these…

I see you. I see you struggling to hold it all together. Trying to finish the laundry, get the dinner dishes washed, floors swept up, kids…

“Mommy, me and my brother are going to find somewhere else to live!” My oldest declared. “Really? Why is that?” “Because you’re so mean…

This is for the broken mama. For the tired, the weary, the chewed up and spit out and cracked up into pieces of us that is just trying to hang on…

I’m the mom of teenagers, and I thought I’d be better at this by now. I thought I would learn how to keep my house clean and my cupboards…

Truth time. I feel overwhelmed lately. It’s the kind of overwhelmed that makes me want to sit and do nothing because I have no idea where to even…