When I first started this blog in October 2018, my children were 4 and 2. Where the heck did all those years go?! This one’s for all the parents still trying to hold on … From the window, a burst…
Tag: parenting
Birds Of A Feather
Being and becoming, not to mention raising well-adjusted children, in this ever-evolving digital age frightens and exhausts me. Birds Of A Feather I careen through my days, letting the weeks, months, years ricochet against the collective chaos spinning all around…
Reflection In The Grotto
For the past four weeks I’ve been taking a women’s-only poetry class focusing on the body, embodiment, and the special ways women experience illness, joy, trauma, etc. It has been an eye-, heart-, and soul-opening experience in which I’ve learned…
A Parent’s Prayer
My daughter is struggling right now and, as her momma, I am, too. Please pray for her. A Parent’s Prayer A stillness settles over me Soft and snug, yet heavy A battered cloak Warmed Against the brutal reality Of my…
Suffocation, No Breathing
I’m tired, so tired. I’m tired of worrying. I’m tired of being scared. I’m tired of overthinking and making decisions. I’m tired of parenting. I’m tired of feeling suffocated, being pawed at, hung all over, clutched and clung to. I’m…
The Road Map
If I could have a road map for one aspect of parenting it would be for teaching self-love and self-esteem. I’ve struggled with these concepts all my life, but they take on a whole new dimension when viewed through the…
Ignorance Is Bliss
Sometimes when I really think about myself as a mom (and how I know nothing), my mind wanders back to when my daughter was a week old. She was a preemie and had just spent a week in the NICU,…
Finding The Solidarity In Loneliness
Sometimes parenting can be the loneliest existence. You wouldn’t think so what with the constant activity that comes with having children. But when the chaos dies down and you have a moment to breathe, you look around and realize you’re…
Baby Steps For The (Momma’s) Soul
At this moment in my life, parenting experts—if there are such a thing—could probably use me as a case study in “How To Self-Reflect And Adjust Your Perspective After A Parenting Meltdown.” Three weeks ago, I woke up, hyperventilated myself…
No Regrets
Regret can be a scary thing. Especially when it blindsides you. We all have regrets. That’s life and there’s no escaping it. Some of them are small, like regretting that burger and fries you had the other day. Some are…