It’s mother’s day and this ushers in so many different memories and emotions for people, welcome or not. For some it’s a day to celebrate and cherish the women who have nurtured and mothered us…for others it’s a painful reminder that we didn’t receive the kind of mothering we needed. There is not a single,...
Here’s the thing. It’s Friday night and my options are to: 1) Drink too much wine (oops) 2) Watch a Grey’s Anatomy Marathon (oops) 3) Reflect on miracles (WIN) It’s been SIX months people since I’ve held a steady paycheck and benefits. SIX. Count them (I do). Which means that it’s been almost eight months...
Our little girl baby is six+ months old. already. Each month I think she couldn’t possibly get any cuter, and the she does; kind of like how we can’t possibly fathom loving her anymore, and then we do. These days Liv is super smiley although wary of strangers. She loves it when her daddy plays...
It has been a month of loss…all at once, my grandmother and two other friend’s grandparents have passed. My other good friend may lose both her parents in the next few months and her husband’s brother has relapsed with cancer. It has felt overwhelming in it’s appearance, all this loss after so much time...
Sometime after the holidays I started throwing around the idea of a party that was decadent and purposeless and involved beautiful mamas and babies. Periodically during planning I would panic when I considered how TEN babies were going to simultaneously be in my home…but then the moment would pass and later the magic happened! I...
