Here’s what my day looks like lately. I wake up around 7:30am exhausted because I don’t sleep well at night because I’m 8 months pregnant and I have to pee every hour and I have heartburn and a head cold and I’m just overall pretty uncomfortable. I have crazy pregnancy dreams and I’m always runningContinue reading “The Paralyzing Problem of Free Time”
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The Important Thing
I’m going to be honest when I say sometimes I look forward to Monday more than I do the weekend. It wasn’t always this way. Although, now that I think about it, sometimes even pre-mom me felt like this, because at least there was routine. There was structure. I knew what was coming and thereContinue reading “The Important Thing”
36 Things I’ve Learned In Motherhood
Well, I’ve been around the sun 36 times. I’m not sure how it happened so fast, but here we are. Not too long ago, I was 34, in a labor and delivery room, enduring yet another earth-shattering contraction, when after a harrowing 48 hours, the Doctor plopped a little, naked baby on my chest andContinue reading “36 Things I’ve Learned In Motherhood”
Confessions from Pre-Mom Me
I can picture her, pre-mom me. I am sitting on my couch, scrolling through instagram stories, and I see reel after reel, picture after picture of my friends’ babies. Babies learning to walk. Kids blowing out birthday candles. Posts about potty training. Pre-mom me rolls her eyes. A friend posts a quote about how challengingContinue reading “Confessions from Pre-Mom Me”
The Hope Antidote 