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Moms Just Need To Fall Apart And Let It All Drop Sometimes Sometimes, all a mama really needs 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬. And sometimes, all she needs from you is to step back and let her shatter. Because a mother’s job is to keep it together. Herself and everything else, 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. And almost all…
When I was a little girl, I was everything to my mother. I was the sun, the moon, and the stars. The fulfillment of a dream and a promise. I was joy, and love, and friendship, all wrapped up in one flawless package. I was *everything* she needed. You couldn’t have told me any different….
Sometimes I look back on my childhood. I see my mama smiling, and I hear the melodious call of my name when it’s time to let the lightning bugs fly away free. I remember sleeping over at my grandparents’ house — knitted afghan blankets and hot apple cider, two gentle people who held me close,…
I want to be the girl who waits outside at the first slow rumble of thunder, ready to dance in the rain. I want to be the girl who stays awake to gaze at a field of diamonds in a midnight sky… a sky so deep and so vast and so void of light that…
Mom Life Pro Tip: Embrace the imperfection, and let it all be messy. Here’s my perspective on life right now: Let it all be messy. Let the grass grow long on weekends. Let the kids stomp in puddles, squishing mud between their toes. Let them rest their heads in dirt and grass to watch the…
This is the place that built me. It’s nothing especially fancy. It’s humble — salt of the earth. It’s small enough that it only takes a few minutes to drive from end to end. It’s the town that raised me up, from a childhood filled with friends long gone, to those cringeworthy middle years, and…
I Won’t Always Be My Daughter’s Best Friend. But She’ll Always Be More Than Mine. For these precious and fleeting few years of her life, I am my daughter’s best friend. The one who makes her eyes light up. The one she turns to for everything. But I know it won’t last too much longer….
Our Kids’ First Baseball, Softball, T-Ball Games Are Only The Beginning It starts in the grass. One day not too long from now, they’ll be skinning their legs as they slide into rock-hard dirt at third base. One day, the taste of that dirt and the smell of the game — sun and sweat-covered uniforms,…
Let me tell you something, my sweethearts. Much, much sooner than your mama would like, you’ll start to face the hard stuff in relationships. I wish it wasn’t true, but it’s just part of the deal. It’s part of being human. It kills me to think of the things you’ll go through. But I’ve been…
I’ve been thinking a lot about kindness. Collectively speaking, we are so, so good about acknowledging the necessity of kindness.We talk about it everywhere – on social media, on bumper stickers, on t-shirts, in commercials. We teach it to our children, first at home and then at school. But the follow-through is rarely what we…