Tag: motherhood

When I think of women supporting one another, I imagine them standing together no matter what and uplifting each other. Therefore, imagine my shock...

Two months ago, I had my last day at work. As a hospital nurse for seven years, the hospital was my second home. It...

Dear Mama, Who Recently Had a Positive Pregnancy Test, Congratulations! You'll be having a winter baby! I know that we're all celebrating spring, which...

I knew there would be a laundry list of things keeping me up at night when we became parents. The lack of sleep is...

  My family and I moved to the Indy area in the summer of 2022, somewhat on a whim. We had lived in Alabama close...

There are a plethora of analogies I can use when it comes to motherhood, but the one that I always come back to is...

It occurs to me one morning, as I groggily watch coffee drip, that I still consider myself postpartum. It is part of my identity...

Adulting, zero out of five stars, do not recommend. I've decided at the ripe age of 38 that I tried this adulting thing, it's...

I was working on a project when my phone rang. I looked down and gasped. It was my daughter's teacher. Without even picking up,...

Our middle child was diagnosed with autism in 2022. The journey has been one of gratitude and grief. I knew something was different about our...

One evening, I waited for pasta water to boil while my kids wrestled loudly on the couch. I scrolled on my phone to drown...

In my younger years, before getting married and having a kid, Sunday was known as Sunday Funday. A day of relaxing by the pool,...

Graduate school is ruining my life. Ok, that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but at times it does feel that way. I...

He's watching my reaction. I realized about half a second into the conversation with the manager at the grocery store bakery as she apologized...