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Dear Kids, Please go to sleep, and then wake up…because I miss you.
Dear Kids, When you were a brand new baby you made little grunting noises from your bed. It would start with that, then turn into crying. I’d swaddle you or nurse you and lay you back down…dreaming of when you’d go to sleep. “Please sleep, baby,” I’d whisper to your soft bald head. Your eyes…
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7 Ways to Survive Motherhood
I’m just a girl in sweat pants with a period stain and a luke warm cup of coffee. The only thing I am an expert on is spot cleaning yoga pants, dry shampoo, and keepin’ it real. I know you’re probably wondering what I did to win at life like this and I have to…
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Motherhood is Messy
I took this picture today because I want to remember the messy, hard, falling apart days of mothering. This is me after one of my kids had a giant public meltdown. The kind where I carried her flailing and kicking past teachers and students, and then put on a little show in the corner of…
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Dear Mama, Don’t enjoy every moment…enjoy ONE.
Dear Mama, Don’t enjoy every moment. Instead, find one moment a day to cherish. I want to level with you: It’s hard to let the crumbs be, the future be, the to-do list be, the wrestling with demons just BE. It’s hard to be still. It’s hard to be present. I wish it wasn’t, but it…
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I can’t enjoy every minute, but I can enjoy 5
Have you ever felt tiny fingers massage your shoulders? Have you ever pressed your face against a ponytail that smells of sunshine and wild whimsy? Have you ever listened to the off key tune from a 7yo lost in her own world? Have you ever brushed against magic and forgot in an instant what it…
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Not a Pinterest Mom
Something is bugging me today. I have fire in my gut, and I have something I need to say: Motherhood gets to be what we say it is. Being a woman gets to be what WE MAKE IT. We decide, we’re in charge…so let’s take it back. Pinterest says there’s 10 ways to get our…
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It’s not selfish to take care of yourself.
Sometimes between babies, and school drop off, and long nights followed by longer days…we lose ourselves. We lose ourselves in the beautiful messy process that is motherhood. We are willing to let ourselves go (mostly). We’re willing to stumble around in sweat pants, sipping luke warm coffee while we pick toys up off the floor.…
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Why I will talk to my daughter about her body
There is an article circulating about how to talk to your daughter about her body (don’t). I love the premise of this, and it makes a lot of great points, but there’s a big BUT for me. There is always going to be the question in every little girl’s (and boy’s) heart, the one that…
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PSA: Stop the Unsolicited Parenting Advice
I know you mean well, I really do. But please, FOR THE LOVE, stop with the unsolicited parenting advice. We all have different ways of parenting, and there’s not one way to do any of it. Choosing the way you raise your kids is deeply personal, and although “it takes a village”, respect is an important…
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You are a Good Mom.
“I’m a good mom, like a really good mom.” I wrote those words the other day and I felt a heaviness I didn’t know was there lift off my shoulders. The words look foreign on the page. Can I say that? I wondered. Am I an imposter if I say that? I just snapped at…