“Think about the children!” “This isn’t about you! When you became a parent, it became all about them!” Well intentioned chides from family and friends are devastating our abilities to parent in our own ways, with our own instincts. Oh and my favorite? “Have you read the book or studies about this?” Yeah. There is…
Dost thou bite off more than thou canst chew? #MomLife
& Why I run on coffee and wine and insanity I have a full time job at a place I adore. Honestly and truly. It blesses my family with an income and health benefits and I am incredibly thankful! In fact, earlier this year I searched for this exact job because older children are way…
A vulnerable expression of a dark & lonely storm
Depression looms like an unwelcome cloud. Smog blurring vision, disrupting ability to breath pure oxygen. Logic screams in the background, “these are lies! Believe them not!” But the only sound that radiates is a hoarse whisper, the smoke closing in. Truth stands obvious, naked in the back of the storm. You are loved. You are…
Parenting 3: Does it ever get any easier?
When I was a mother of babies, I thought, “when will this get easier?” I remember laying in bed, physically spent from the nursing and cleaning and washing and comforting. I often felt “touched out,” desiring a mere hour without hands all over me. Does it get easier? Or just different? Back then, I’d describe…