I have a bruise on the top of my forehead today where a child dropped a back-scratcher-doubling-as-a-baton on my face while I was lying down. There’s a scar on my lower abdomen that basically looks like the pale, wrinkled version of the “meh” emoji. And I can’t even remember the last time I wasn’t tired. […]
So many of us that carry the title of MOM on our shoulders along with so many other titles. And we carry the MOM title well. You’ve always carried it well. And now, with the addition of COVID-19 into our lives, we can add several more titles, or talents, to our curriculum vitae. Clipper Queen, […]
This is what motherhood dreams are made of The comment wasn’t mine, but it resonated with me. It was Halloween night, and a group of our friends headed out into our neighborhood with our sights set on candy. Our costume laden kids outnumbered the adults, and the whole night was a dance of taking care […]
Recently I was fortunate enough to be part of a women in leadership lunch at work. The group was comprised of women at my company in positions of leadership, and the keynote speaker was a female Vice President who was sharing resources and knowledge gained through a leadership course she took part in last year. […]
I wouldn’t have thought a show called Sex and the City would provide me with a moment of clarity when it comes to the aches and growing pains of motherhood, but funny, that’s exactly what happened. The first time I binge watched all six seasons I was fresh out of college, still trying to navigate […]
We have partnered with Legacy Community Health, but the words of this post are all ours. If you are pregnant right now, you know what a magical and exhausting time is coming your way. Sure, you can eat burritos and fudge {Don’t judge pregnant me!} without a concern, but soon the time will come that […]
Distinguished writer Ta-Nehisi Coates poignantly points out the inherent problems with dehumanizing people. And while he was specifically talking about the danger in verbally removing the humanity of enslaved and disadvantaged people, I think we often do the same thing to some degree with our heroes. We put them on pedestals and begin to believe […]
Lately, I’ve been a Someday Mom. You know, the kind of mom that has all the good intentions and fun activities stored away for a day in the near future {surely}. Someday. The kind of mom who holds onto hope after hope that someday she will get all of her youthful energy back {and, gosh, I’m […]
…But the most important thing about mom is that she loves me. When our most recent foster kiddos came to us, they let it be known that books were a rarity in their house. Being in our home must have looked like Belle when she entered the Beast’s library because there are books literally stacked […]
