Dear lovely you, Shhh, honey. Your heart is beating quickly and your brow is furrowed to exhaustion. Your tension headache is a dull ache reaching its tendrils toward full roar. And worse, your heart is heavy with a pounding of things left undone. There are always things undone when … [Read more...] about Dear Tired Mamas: You Can’t Do it All, So Stop Trying
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I Like Your Face (Thoughts on Raising a Confident Daughter)
She’s absolutely gorgeous, in my personal and biased opinion. Most of the time I feel totally unequipped in raising my five-year-old daughter to become a confident and secure woman with a positive body image, especially in today's world. “Complex” doesn’t even begin to cover … [Read more...] about I Like Your Face (Thoughts on Raising a Confident Daughter)
Dear Mom in the Tunnel
I sat at the mall coffee shop today clacking keys on my laptop, with my leather jacket and stylish infinity scarf, certain that every blessed soul that passed by immediately took me for the young and childless 23-year-old that I still am (in my mind). I had not a single toddler … [Read more...] about Dear Mom in the Tunnel
Dear Sleep-Deprived Mama: Here’s the Story I Was Too Scared to Tell
Warning: this post is longer than the longest thing in the world. I should have split it up, but I didn't want to. You've been forewarned. Hey Pretty Mama, in your yoga pants and ponytail, slamming back the coffee like it’s magic (which it totally is). I’m terrified to write this … [Read more...] about Dear Sleep-Deprived Mama: Here’s the Story I Was Too Scared to Tell
I Am Supermom
I was great with child exactly five years ago, sweltering in my hugeness with heat radiating from concrete, counting down the weeks until. Then on a bright and sunny afternoon in September I birthed a child and took the title, "mother", just like that. Boom. For all of these … [Read more...] about I Am Supermom
Dear Sweet Baby Snoring On My Chest at 1:14am
Dear little one, You are just 3 months old. A whisper, really, and it was just yesterday that I birthed you in the dim candle-lit room with loud bellowing and moaning. You gave me a hard time in your entrance to the world, but you were a breeze from then on. A good sleeper, unlike … [Read more...] about Dear Sweet Baby Snoring On My Chest at 1:14am
Living the American Dream (Motherhood Edition)
“”No man can live without joy” is what Thomas Aquinas wrote. And I confess, it is true, I have known many dead waiting to die”.[i] * Here I sit, fireside, in a leather chair, sipping my Starbucks. I haven’t seen my husband or children in 24 hours. I’ve interacted only with total … [Read more...] about Living the American Dream (Motherhood Edition)
The Domestic Monastery
This post was originally published on March 25, 2010. I am recycling it today for your enjoyment, as it is so relevant to what I'm learning (still) in this season of life. *** A while ago I stumbled across this article online, but for the life of me, cannot remember how or … [Read more...] about The Domestic Monastery