Dear beloved friends and family, My life is a mess. The dishes aren’t done. The laundry is never-ending. Literally. I haven’t vacuumed in weeks. I’m ashamed of the state of my bathroom. And there are toys… everywhere. So, please, pretty please, as you are thinking of how much you love us and how much… Continue reading Time Not Toys
It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned this, mainly because it’s too hard to write about. It hurts. And it sucks. Infertility SUCKS. It sucks the life out of you, depletes you of your energy, your time, your joy, your femininity or masculinity, your confidence, your self-love, and most of all your hope. It drains… Continue reading Negative
Winter 2012 The past 48 hours have been riddled with anxiety. One of my best friends was sitting, waiting, wishing for the opportunity to hold Maddie in her arms and know for certain that she was hers forever. In our state, a birth-mother giving her child up for adoption has 24 hours after the child… Continue reading I Won’t Give Up: A Contested Adoption
It’s easy to get wrapped up in the holiday season before it even begins. We’re anxious to start checking off to-do’s and complete our shopping lists so that when sales hit, we know what we’re buying, where we’re buying it from, and how much money we’re saving. Black Friday sales are announced earlier and earlier;… Continue reading Thanksgristmas
It was December around Christmastime, and I was the only one home, waiting for my 6 year old sister to get back from dance class. I was 14 years old, busy cleaning the kitchen from making cookies and dancing around to the Practical Magic soundtrack, and I didn’t hear the soft knocking on our front… Continue reading FARE Treats For All: The Teal Pumpkin Project
Why do people run marathons? Climb mountains? Swim great distances? So they can say they did? No. They do it to prove to themselves that they can. They do it to push their bodies to their fullest potential. They do it to explore the limitations of their minds. They do it because they feel it… Continue reading Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
# I remember the first time I used Twitter. I was so confused. I’d never felt so old. I asked my students to explain to me “the point” of it all. Why use hashtags? Are they like secret jokes? Is this a filing system? Who is clicking on these and why? How is Twitter different… Continue reading 5 Things Everyone Wants
Do you remember being a non-crunchy mom and how you felt when those super crunchy women would leave you horror struck by telling you things like: “Yes, I consumed my placenta after birth…”*** Or… “I no longer buy toilet paper.”*** I was totally that woman when it came to sharing interesting facts about breastmilk. ***Placenta… Continue reading Doing the Breaststroke
We’re always saying, “Hurry up! C’mon! We’re going to be late!” or “WHERE ARE YOUR SHOES?!?” or lamenting when our child poops for like the fourth time that morning JUST as we are about to go out the door. We relish school time or nap time when we can read on our phones uninterrupted. We… Continue reading Looking Up
Thank you for joining us as we’ve given mothers from all over the US a place to share their Nursing Tales. We heard from mommas whose nursing relationships changed from first to second child, mommas who faced and overcame nursing obstacles, mommas who milk shared and pumped and supplemented with formula, mommas who exclusively formula… Continue reading Nursing Tales: United By Love
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