Tag: motherhood

If you’ve navigated a graduation recently, you have likely experienced serious comparison fatigue. There is no shortage of impressive kids out there. Peers...

A couple of years ago, my middle child started vomiting periodically. When it first began, we assumed a stomach bug and kept him home...

I’ve been friends with my best friend for almost twenty years. We met in high school, and we grew up together. We’ve watched each...

There is a scene in Friends, specifically Season 5 Episode 16, The One with the Cop, where Ross is trying to get a couch...

To My Dearest Little Embryo, Tomorrow is a big day. You’re going to be in for a wild ride. I need you to be strong...

My sister-in-law is about to have her first baby. She is about to become a mother. And somehow, even though I am only eight...

When I told people we were planning to homeschool, one of the first questions I got was “What about socialization?” and I wondered too,...

We have an empathy problem in our country. The word empathy, while derived from the Greek word similar to sympathy, is actually a word...

One day last summer, my then-eight-year-old climbed grumpily into my car after camp. Following some initial huffing and puffing, she proceeded to demand that...

As I rock my two-and-a-half-year-old in the rocking chair in his room, I start having a slow, quiet realization. I am no longer in...

It’s Thursday morning at 4:00 a.m. You know your alarm is two hours away from going off, and another day of solo parenting while...

Parenting is a full-contact sport. Meals to plan. Errands to run. “What is this weird rash?” Did I pay the electric bill? Who needs...

Many of us grow up with a plan. A plan to find the perfect partner, get married, buy a house with a white picket...

Two years ago next month, I watched my husband walk into a date, comfortably holding hands and laughing with his married co-worker. There was...