Category Archives: Motherhood
Parenting is not like it looked in the “brochures.” You know the ones I’m talking about? The mother has showered and has perfect hair and make-up. The brochure where she is wearing skinny jeans and heels weeks after having the baby. The brochure where dinner is hot and ready at a mo ...
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I swore to Andy and my friends I would be leaving the hospital with two things: a new pair of Manolo’s and a baby. I hadn’t seen my feet in about a month and I wanted to show my body it hadn’t gotten the best of me. My feet were pouring out of my shoes, swollen to the heavens. I was ...
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It was anything but "love at first sight" for me and Andy. My first day at my new job was his last. He had quit his job to to seek his “dot com fortune.” I was introduced to him briefly, but never thought about him again. A group of co-workers went out to dinner about a month later an ...
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Why does the waiting room of a fertility clinic feel like the lobby to death's door? No one looks at you directly. No one smiles. No happy laughter while looking through a magazine. Not even soothing elevator music to calm the nerves. I guess a place of heavy hearts, hope and disappointment keeps ...
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“And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.” ~Ether, The B ...
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It was odd that no one else got food poisoning that day. Maybe my chicken was undercooked? A bad smore? The throw ups hadn’t lasted very long and they were strange in nature. I went from lying in bed to “I’m gonna lose my cookies ASAP!” Then it was over as quickly as it came. Weird was ...
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I was going through some old boxes the other day, and found needles and a bottle of pills. While this sounds a little like something you would find in dark alleys with rainy awnings, the locating of these items made me cry. They were my old tools. Tools like a carpenter would use to build somethi ...
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