As I begin to experience my last firsts as a parent, I am feeling the way that every mother will someday feel when they reach that magic number of children for their family to be complete. For us, the number of children was four. As I packed away my son’s newborn clothes, a size my…Continue reading Bittersweet
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You are the Mirror
Growing up, I so often heard my mother remark about how she was fat. Even now, sometimes the first thing she says to me when I cross through her doorway is something to the effect of, “Look how skinny you are!” We are a society obsessed with appearance and that’s not news to you, I’m…Continue reading You are the Mirror
The Things Nobody Told Me
Before I had kids, there were just so many things I had no idea about and I was crazy to think that parenting was just instinct and common sense. It wasn’t. When I had my first daughter six years ago, nobody told me how tiny their tummies are when they’re first born so I would…Continue reading The Things Nobody Told Me