There’s Nothing Terrible About Two
Two is not terrible. It’s terribly terrific. It’s frustratingly fantastic. It’s annoyingly amazing. It’s painfully perfect. It’s…
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They Tell You To Hold the Baby, But No One Warns You How Fast He Grows
They tell you to hold the baby. They tell you that everything else can fall by the wayside. They tell you to forget about your to-do list, because…
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Won’t You Stay a Toddler Just a Little While Longer?
Toddler. Hood. Help me, Jesus. It is the swinging back and forth of a pendulum between staring at the most precious thing on God’s planet and…
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There’s a Little Boy Where My Baby Once Was
Today my baby became a little boy. The change has been coming for a while even if I didn’t quite realize it. His movements shifting slowly. A…
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Sweet Child, I Don’t Want to Forget the Details of You
This morning, I woke to the tiny fingers of a 3-year-old intertwined in my own. I’m not sure how long we were like that or even when he crept…
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I’ve Never Carried a Weight This Heavy Before
I’m no stranger to feeling the weight of the world on my shoulders. In my life, I’ve carried emotional baggage. Lots of it. But never quite this…
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Dear Young Mom, Take Your Time
This morning I was sat in the grocery store parking lot writing out a list of the things I needed when in the lane across my from me, I noticed a…
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Our Baby Chapter is Officially Over—And I Can’t Wait To See What Comes Next
Someone asked me the other day how I felt about the baby chapter of my life coming to an end. As I watched our one-and-a-half-year-old join the…
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I Didn’t Know I Could Love Anyone As Much As I Love You
I didn’t know this would be the last time I nursed you to sleep. I would have soaked in the moment if only I knew. I didn’t know this was the…
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I’m a Good Mom, You Just Caught Me in a Bad Moment
You know, it never fails. The two minutes my son is having a colossal meltdown in public, an innocent passerby hears me say something negative, or…
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