We are not the couple who had years of wedded bliss before kids entered the picture. I mean, we’re no shotgun wedding couple either, but we had one solid (and fast) year of marriage before we heard that sweet, sweet 6 week old heartbeat, and our lives (and relationship) changed before our eyes. We are… Read More I Love You, Five Years.
One of my son’s favorite things to do is look up and find the moom. The full moom among the stars, a half moom in broad daylight, or a delicate crescent moom peeking out over the horizon. And the best part about that most gratifying search is listening to him call it out with wide… Read More Goodnight Moom
My sister had her second baby last weekend, and between her, friends, and my fellow mama community, it feels like everyone is suddenly stepping in to this 2-kid club. I am now 9 months into this craziness, and while I’m hardly seasoned, watching my sister come home with her new itty bitty, facing a new… Read More Not Easier, Less Scary
Last week, I thought I would be writing about the end of my breastfeeding journey with my daughter – and I was not OK. I am happy to say, things seem to have panned out in my favor, but it did not come without a very long moment (or weekend) of emotional weakness. And being… Read More What Doesn’t Kill You…Might Still Be Tough
Like many women, I have always found things to compare myself to. I have compared my body when mine is not the way I want, even though my body does amazing things; I have compared my marriage when we hit bumps in the road, even though our love is strong; I have compared my job… Read More Just the Reminder I Needed (A Story of Comparison)
I have written a couple of times about the challenges I face with my toddler. Some of those challenges are due to his age, some of those challenges are due to the simple fact of being a mom of two. Nonetheless, toddlers are a challenge – a beautiful, crazy, unpredictable challenge. But last weekend I… Read More Motherhood and the Space Between
This week I watched a documentary that every mother and person who lives with a mother should watch (available on Netflix). The film, When the Bough Breaks: A Documentary About PostpartumDepression (2017), explores the all too misunderstood world of postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis, the many layers and complexities, and the unfortunate toll they can take on both… Read More The Ugliness in Motherhood
In the blink of an eye We have become Two different people Who resemble those we once were… And from behind all the years That gave smiles and tears We have both grown beyond What we thought we could not. The time might feel lost, Yet the love has quite gained Over peaks… Read More How Can I be 25 in Your Eyes? (an ode to my husband)
Consider this: you invite a perfect stranger into your life. You learn about each other, enjoy each other, fall in love, and one day decide, as you are no longer strangers, that you will build a life together. Perhaps you get married, perhaps you simply cohabitate. Regardless, you decide to intertwine your independent histories into… Read More Co-Parenting: A Partnership, A Team, A Lifelong Adventure
The Juggle Struggle 