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I just got off the phone with one of my best friends, Nina. I don’t make a lot of calls where I fully expect to burst into tears (it makes me feel guilty for dumping that on someone else), but this time, I couldn’t help it. Over the weekend, I felt like the worst mom [...]
With March coming in like a lion, I’ve been thinking about the fierce side of motherhood these days. Before becoming a mom, I would never have thought of myself as “fierce.” I would barely have considered myself the kind of woman who would get her hackles up about anything. But, now, I have definitely come [...]
After “I love you,” the words my daughter hears from me most frequently are, “be careful!” Yes, I am Cautious Mom. I worry about tripping, stubbing, falling, twisting, slicing, scraping, poking, and every other type of physical mishap you can think of. I am constantly telling my daughter to slow down, get off that, and [...]
There are days when being someone’s mom takes everything out of me. As much as I love my little girl – to absolute pieces – motherhood has a way of cutting through me, right to my soft and gooey center. No other experience – not adolescence, not my first job, not my marriage or my [...]
