Category: Parenting
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Eight
How is it possible to look at you and immediately be taken back to those first breaths you took? Or, to think it’s only been a few weeks since you took your first tentative steps? It’s been 8 wonderful years, but I remember each one still so clearly. When Robert was born, I was given…
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Worthy
I’m sitting in my bedroom, holding the baby close as I nurse her. The lights are off in an effort to keep quiet and calm. I breathe her in, soaking up this precious moment with my last baby. I thought this year would be different. I hoped for more quiet moments to snuggle my girl.…
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One More Thing
Sometimes, something happens and it’s not really a big deal, but the weight of that moment feels like so much to bare. One more thing on an already full plate. Report card season? It’s not just looking over one report card, it’s looking at two. It’s trying to figure out how the report card and…
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La maternelle, déjà?
I don’t know what happened. I feel fairly confident that it wasn’t that long ago that I gave birth to our 2nd son. Wasn’t it just last month that I introduced Robert to his baby brother, Sullivan? The baby Robert begged me, at every chance he could, to hold? The one he proudly called “his…
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Bloom
For many, 2020 represented a very difficult, dark, and overwhelming year. While I tried to focus on the moments that brought joy, I have to say, 2020 hurt me. I am a bit of a social butterfly, and my kids are quite social, which meant that following the guidelines to stay home, and stay relatively…
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