Sometimes I Miss Her
“Hey Mom, can you straighten my hair?” she asks. I gladly oblige. Because it’s not often that she needs—or wants—my…
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“Hey Mom, can you straighten my hair?” she asks. I gladly oblige. Because it’s not often that she needs—or wants—my…
Continue ReadingI can’t really put my finger on it. Or manage to find all the words. But there’s just something about…
Continue ReadingMany of us have been fed lie after lie about motherhood. We are told that when we have children, our…
Continue ReadingAs my kindergartner came bounding through the door back from the park, she seemed ecstatic to tell me all about…
Continue Reading“You look white as a sheet,” said Jacquie sitting next to me in math class. I nodded and gripped my…
Continue ReadingVindictive lunch hour tactics. Room temperature shoulders gone cold. Weaponizing the whites of their eyes, rolling them back and back…
Continue ReadingI remember the day you were born so vividly. It’s etched into my brain as one of the best moments…
Continue ReadingMy current dilemma: how to teach four little girls how to be good sisters when I have no idea what…
Continue ReadingAs a preschool teacher and a mom, I’ve always felt pretty confident in my parenting from ages birth to 5…
Continue ReadingOnce upon a time, I was 25 and crying in the car. Weeping, actually, over my just-pregnant belly. There was…
Continue ReadingI am brave. I am beautiful. I am His. Some days it’s an eye roll, the kind only a daughter…
Continue ReadingThis calling isn't easy. Raising daughters. There is beauty and precious moments tucked into seeing our girls grow into the…
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