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 […]
I don’t recall a day in the last 18 years that I haven’t prayed {and let’s just be honest, worried about more than prayed} for my kids to succeed. When they were first born, success was a night of sleep. At 2, success included more challenges, as I began to see that I was incapable […]
Sometimes, carrying the burden of the physical and mental load of motherhood feels like it’s too much, and sometimes we just want someone to carry us. A friend of mine gave me a book two weeks ago that I excitedly thanked her for and, with true intention of reading it, placed it in my bag next […]
I’m just going to lay it out for you:: parenting {at any stage} is not for the faint of heart. I’d go as far as to say that in my particular stage of parenting a 2-year-old and a 2-month-old, it can be downright hard. But I never worry how I’m going to handle it. I may feel […]
