Author’s Note: I wrote this piece, with permission, after a friend shared about how other moms were responding to her and her little girl. This is not exactly her story, but a combination of stories shared to me through the years, and my own observations. Thank you for reading. Dear Moms, We are all in the trenches of this thing called Motherhood. Together. It is Continue Reading
Undercover
I see you. I know you are out there. I think about you. And I care. A lot. You are the mom whose child has a diagnosis, but no one knows. You are the mom whose child does not have a diagnosis, but you know he or she could have one. You are the mom with a child who is different, quirky, has unique struggles, but yet has no diagnosis. You are the mom who is too afraid to seek Continue Reading
When Mom Has a Hangover
Ouch. Oh no. Please don’t make me get up. Wow, why does my head feel like it was hit by a truck and put back together by toddlers with chubby fingers? And just why? Why do I do these things? Whyyyyyyyyyyyy???????? It’s so painful. The PAIN IN MY HEART is the worst. When you know that you have blown it “as a mom” (because you don’t ever blow it in other arenas…), it Continue Reading
I Give, You Give
Recently, my caseworker asked me to make a list of all the things I do for Ryan. Daily, weekly, appointments, driving, etc. ALL. OF. IT. And the list is long. And he is 14 years old. Today!! As I wrote and reviewed the list, asked hubby and our beloved behaviorist/sitter to give input, well, it made me kind of sad. Sad to see it all there in black and white. His incredible DEPENDENCE, and Continue Reading
A Birth & A Blink
I was FINE FINE FINE until the slideshow began. And then the famous Pomp and Circumstance music started rolling and my lips started quivering. All the 5th graders marched into the MPR, all dressed up with their homemade-Pinterest-worthy mortarboard graduation hats on heads, purple leis around their necks. Shining bright. And I kept smiling on the outside with my bright lipstick smile but Continue Reading
Dear Mom
Dear Mom, No one warned me when I was pregnant—that I may be a mother…without my mother. It’s not anything I began to imagine amidst my growing belly, baby showers, and nesting a nursery. I was barely into motherhood when I lost you to your lung cancer. All those decades of smoking. You were diagnosed and gone in the length of a summer. Our last summer. At the time I had my toddler, Continue Reading
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