I read this article in Time magazine this weekend and found it incredibly interesting to read all of the ways that moms are prone to feeling terrible about the role of being a mom. I sat a meeting recently at work where a co-worker, whose children are now in college, was listing her regrets for...
Monday, October 23, 2017
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Late night thoughts
Today she's sweaty hair plastered against her forehead from the baby fine waves that escape her pigtails as she runs around outside, exploring ants and digging holes with a stick. She's scraped knees, and dirty sneakers, peals of giggles and exclamations of "Come back here you silly goose!" as...
Sunday, April 23, 2017
There are a lot of opinions
There are times in the past two years of this parenting journey where I've wondered if other people listen to some of the things that I've had people say to me. Like, I know that everyone faces their own hardships, or their own challenges and struggle with judgmental people on some level, but...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
If I'm being honest
I'm not ok. I'm not.
I've avoided talking about this with anyone because I everyone in my life has either abandoned me, or if they haven't, they've made me feel like I'm somehow a burden when I actually need someone, so I've been white knuckling it, and this is my only safe space.......or,...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Reading and thinking
The past few weeks have had me feeling a bit down. It might be the mid-winter blues, or maybe I've given in to feeling sorry for myself a bit, or maybe everything I've shoved aside is becoming apparent. I'm not sure. Regardless, I feel like I've been on the struggle bus, and I've spent...
Monday, February 13, 2017
A wealth of useless information
I was talking to a co-worker the other day about the things that worry her about becoming a parent, largely whether the balance of responsibilities will tilt too far to one side. She said something about how she doesn't want to be the one who has to remember everything all the time. I told...
Monday, January 16, 2017
What's missing, and what's not
Over the last couple of weeks, my world has been able to shift a bit. My husband had a break from classes, and with the return of free time also came the return of social interaction. It made me notice a few things. First and foremost, I miss social interaction. Beyond that,...
