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I don’t enjoy every moment, but I love every season.
They say you never get this time back, and I wish that wasn’t true. When I look through old pictures, my heart feels almost broken. I wish I could jump into that photo just for a second and hug that little body again. My son is three inches shy of my height, but once upon…
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Dear Kids, Even though I fail…
Dear Kids, As a mom, I fail often. I fail more often than I’d like to admit. I don’t think I make it through one single day without snapping about something I regret, but I love you with my whole heart. I hope you know that. I hope that my love settles deep into your…
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Dear Kids, When you look for love…
Dear Kids, Sometimes I ask you if there are any crushes in your life. You predictably roll your eyes and scoff at me, “MOM, NO!” I grin at you, “Okay well, let me know.” You probably won’t let me know anytime soon, but someday I hope you do. I hope you know I’m a safe…
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Friendship requires sacrifice.
Friendship requires sacrifice. There, I said it. I have met and talked to a lot of lonely people lately, and let me tell you it breaks my heart because I remember those days like I remember the smell of burnt popcorn. That memory is never going away, and when I think about it the ache…
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You’re a Motherflippingchampion.
“Don’t compare.” I say to myself as I make reluctant eye contact with a mom at school drop off with brushed hair and a smile that makes me feel like I need to go back to bed. “Morning,” I say as my kids fall out the door with mismatched socks and a rough case of…
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Dear Mama, On the Hard Days…
I remember driving home from the grocery store with tears streaming down my face because my two boys under three were screaming at the top of their lungs. The baby was screaming to be nursed, and the other one was screaming because I wouldn’t let him buy the red stress ball or the Milky Way…
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Am I doing the right thing? My biggest motherhood struggle.
Am I doing the right thing? Those are the words that hit me after I’ve had a difficult parenting moment, and when I lay in bed staring into the darkness mulling it over and over again. It is like a physical pain in my heart when I think about my kids. Am I doing this…
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7 Lies I Believed That Kept me From Friendship
I struggled with friendship growing up. We moved a lot so I had a hard time feeling like I ever truly “belonged”. When I became a mom, the loneliness intensified and hung over me like a thick cloud. The friends I had moved away and there I was sitting in a tiny house with scratchy carpet…
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When the holidays are hard…I see you.
To my friends who suffer during the holidays… I see you. To the ones that have lost someone and the holidays aggravate an already gaping wound… I see you. To the ones who have to share their kids with another home and the days without them are long and empty… I see you. To the…
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Dear Kids, You are always enough…
Dear Kids, Your eyes were strained and wet with tears that you quickly blinked away. You cleared your throat and pretended to be okay. You were not okay. I knew it and you knew it, but I’d already asked you so I didn’t press. The weight of the world seemed to be on your eleven-year-old…