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When being a Mom hurts
I remember it still so painfully 6 years later. I had given birth to possibly the most gorgeous baby girl and was entirely enamored with her. The haze and quiet that comes shortly after child birth and the initial hustle of…
“You look so beautiful like that”
I’ve survived the first two morning routines without Chad. He’s in Calgary this week, and it’s the first time I’ve had all 4 kids for a week by myself. The regular eb and flow of a day I can manage…
Mother, you are enough
Ah the big weekend rounds the bend and Mothers everywhere inwardly cringe a bit. Oh it’s a glorious Sunday, often at long last the sun comes out, the bbq’s flare up or KFC buckets stink up minivans, garden nursery’s are…
Dear Mother
I see you as your heart increases today; feeling it yourself is inexplicable. The moment you saw her tiny face, felt her soft warm head snuggle up under your chin, watched her tiny fingers clasp yours, you knew it was…
on motherhood…
never so exhausted, so “stretched”(yes I mean that in several different ways), so forced selfless, so full of love! Motherhood-wow. This is really one of those things you just can’t possibly “get” until you become a Mom yourself. And yes,…
