Tag Archives: Motherhood
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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Andy and I knew if we were to sustain our sanity we needed to get away for a few days. People that knew what was going on with us personally surrounded our world. We needed to be in a place where we could fly under the radar and nobody knew our names. Havin ...
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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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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 ...
Continue Readingmy mother seated far left By Alison Satterwhite I'm grateful to have a mother such as mine. She has virtually nine lives with all the challenges she has faced, yet she is always upbeat and easy to be around. When she is nearly dying-and she has come to that point on more than one occasion-y ...
Continue ReadingBy Ruth Haynie Contributor & Superwoman Extraordinaire When our girls were very small I used to tell them that I had eyes in the back of my head. And they believed it. This was usually told to quell some kind of riot going on in the back seat of the car at the time. At first they quest ...
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